70Cabinet information and proceedings

70 Cabinet information and proceedings

70 Cabinet information and proceedings

(1) This Act does not enable the Children’s Guardian—

(a) to require any person—

(i) to give any statement of information, or

(ii) to produce any document or other thing, or

(iii) to give a copy of any document, or

(iv) to answer any question, or

(b) to inspect any document or thing,

that relates to Cabinet information.

(2) For the purposes of this section, a certificate of the Secretary or General Counsel of the Cabinet Office that—

(a) information is Cabinet information, or

(b) any information, document, thing or question relates to confidential proceedings of Cabinet or of a committee of Cabinet,

is conclusive of that fact.

(3) In this section—

Cabinet information means—

(a) Cabinet information under the Government Information (Public Access) Act 2009, or

(b) confidential proceedings of Cabinet or a committee of Cabinet.

s 70: Am 2023 No 35, Sch 4.5[2].