102Public access to minutes

102 Public access to minutes (1) This section applies to the minutes of a council, council committee or local authority. (2) A copy of the minutes must, within 10 business days after the date of the meeting to which the minutes relate, be available to the public: (b) at the council's public office. (3) If business that deals with confidential information was considered at the meeting, the copy of the minutes available to the public must contain a statement of that fact and the provision of this Act under which the information is confidential. 1 Information may be suppressed from the material that is made publicly available because the information is confidential (see section 293). 2 The regulations prescribe the information that may be suppressed.

Local Government Act 2019 63 (4) A member of the public: (a) may inspect without fee, at the council's public office, the copy of the minutes made available to the public; and (b) may, on payment of any fee fixed by the council, obtain an identical copy of the minutes; and (c) may, on payment of any fee fixed by the council, obtain from the CEO a certified copy of, or extract from, the minutes of a (5) However, until the council, council committee or local authority has confirmed the minutes as a correct record of the meeting: (a) the minutes, in the form in which the minutes are made available to the public, must be marked with a warning to the effect that the minutes have not been confirmed as a correct record of the meeting; and (b) no certified copy of, or extract from, the minutes is to be issued.