11Public access to correspondence and reports

11 Public access to correspondence and reports

11 Public access to correspondence and reports

(1) A council and a committee of which all the members are councillors must, during or at the close of a meeting, or during the business day following the meeting, give reasonable access to any person to inspect correspondence and reports laid on the table at, or submitted to, the meeting.

(2) This section does not apply if the correspondence or reports—

(a) relate to a matter that was received or discussed, or

(b) were laid on the table at, or submitted to, the meeting,

when the meeting was closed to the public.

(3) This section does not apply if the council or committee resolves at the meeting, when open to the public, that the correspondence or reports, because they relate to a matter specified in section 10A(2), are to be treated as confidential.

s 11: Am 1995 No 12, Sch 1 [2]; 1997 No 145, Sch 1 [4].