Section 21D: Publication etc of reports, recommendations and responses: confidential and exempt information, Local Government Act 2000

This section applies to—

the publication under section 21B of any document comprising—

a report or recommendations of an overview and scrutiny committee, or

a response of a local authority to any such report or recommendations, and

the provision of a copy of such a document—

to a member of a local authority under section 21A(8) or section 21B, or

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by an overview and scrutiny committee or a local authority.

The overview and scrutiny committee or the local authority, in publishing the document ...—

must exclude any confidential information, and

may exclude any relevant exempt information.

The overview and scrutiny committee or the local authority, in providing a copy of the document to a member of the local authority, may exclude any confidential information or relevant exempt information.

Where information is excluded under subsection (2) or (3), the overview and scrutiny committee or the local authority, in publishing, or providing a copy of, the document—

may replace so much of the document as discloses the information with a summary which does not disclose that information, and

must do so if, in consequence of excluding the information, the document published, or copy provided, would be misleading or not reasonably comprehensible.

If by virtue of subsection (2), (3) or (4) an overview and scrutiny committee, in publishing or providing a copy of a report or recommendations—

excludes information, or

replaces part of the report or recommendations with a summary,

it is nevertheless to be taken for the purposes of section 21B(3)(c) or (d) to have published or provided a copy of the report or recommendations.

In this section—

"confidential information" has the meaning given by section 100A(3) of the Local Government Act 1972 (admission to meetings of principal councils),
"exempt information" has the meaning given by section 100I of that Act, and, in relation to— also includes information which is exempt information under ... section 186 of the National Health Service (Wales) Act 2006, and
(a)any report or recommendations of an overview and scrutiny committee which has functions under section 21(2)(f), or
(b)any response to such a report or recommendations,
"relevant exempt information" means—
(a)in relation to a report or recommendations of an overview and scrutiny committee, exempt information of a description specified in a resolution of the overview and scrutiny committee under section 100A(4) of the Local Government Act 1972 which applied to the proceedings, or part of the proceedings, at any meeting of the overview and scrutiny committee at which the report was, or recommendations were, considered, and
(b)in relation to a response of the authority, exempt information of a description specified in such a resolution of the authority which applied to the proceedings, or part of the proceedings, at any meeting of the authority at which the report or response was, or recommendations were, considered, and
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In this section, references to an overview and scrutiny committee include references to a sub-committee of such a committee.

Section 21D: Publication etc of reports, recommendations and responses: confidential and exempt information

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