22 Access to information etc
Local Government Act 2000 (2000 c 22) | Legislation

22  Access to information etc

(1)     Meetings of a local authority executive, or a committee of such an executive, are to be open to the public or held in private.

(2)     Subject to regulations under subsection (9), it is for a local authority executive to decide which of its meetings, and which of the meetings of any committee of the executive, are to be open to the public and which of those meetings are to be held in private.

(3)     A written record must be kept of prescribed decisions made at meetings of local authorities executives, or committees of such executives, which are held in private.

(4)     A written record must be kept of prescribed decisions made by individual members of local authority executives.

(5)     Written records under subsection (3) or (4) must include reasons for the decisions to which they relate.

(6)     Written records under subsections (3) and (4), together with such reports, background papers or other documents as may be prescribed, must be made available to members of the public in accordance with regulations made by the [Welsh Ministers].

(7)     Regulations under subsection (6) may make provision for or in connection with preventing the whole or part of

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