Statutory Instruments
2006 No. 69
LOCAL GOVERNMENT, ENGLAND
The Local Authorities (Executive Arrangements) (Access to Information) (Amendment) (England) Regulations 2006
Made
18th January 2006
Laid before Parliament
26th January 2006
Coming into force
1st March 2006
The First Secretary of State, in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 22 and 105 of the Local Government Act 2000( 1 ), hereby makes the following Regulations:
Citation, commencement and application
1. —(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Local Authorities (Executive Arrangements) (Access to Information) (Amendment) (England) Regulations 2006 and shall come into force on 1st March 2006.
(2) These Regulations apply in relation to local authorities in England.
Additional rights of access to documents for members of local authorities
2. In regulation 17 of the Local Authorities (Executive Arrangements) (Access to Information) (England) Regulations 2000( 2 )—
(a) in paragraphs (1) and (2), for “(3) and (4)”, substitute “(3) to (4)”; and
(b) for paragraph (3), substitute—
“ (3) Paragraphs (1) and (2) do not require a document to be available for inspection if it appears to the proper officer that it discloses exempt information of a description falling within Part 1 of Schedule 12A to the 1972 Act (descriptions of exempt information: England) ( 3 ) .
(3A) But paragraphs (1) and (2) do require (despite paragraph (3)) the document to be available for inspection if the information is information of a description for the time being falling within—
(a) paragraph 3 of Schedule 12A to the 1972 Act (except to the extent that the information relates to any terms proposed or to be proposed by or to the authority in the course of negotiations for a contract); or
(b) paragraph 6 of Schedule 12A to the 1972 Act. ” .
Signed by authority of the First Secretary of State
Phil Woolas
Minister of State
Office of the Deputy Prime Minister
18th January 2006
2000 c. 22 . For the application of sections 22 and 105 to Wales, see section 106 of the Local Government Act 2000.
S.I. 2000/3272 , to which there are amendments not relevant to these Regulations.
Schedule 12A to the Local Government Act 1972 (c. 70) has been substituted by article 4 of, and the Schedule to, S.I. 2006/88 which comes into force on 1st March 2006.