[100A Admission to meetings of principal councils]

[Part VA Access to Meetings and Documents of Certain Authorities, Committees and Sub-Committees]

[100A  Admission to meetings of principal councils]

[(1)     A meeting of a principal council shall be open to the public except to the extent that they are excluded (whether during the whole or part of the proceedings) under subsection (2) below or by resolution under subsection (4) below.

(2)     The public shall be excluded from a meeting of a principal council during an item of business whenever it is likely, in view of the nature of the business to be transacted or the nature of the proceedings, that, if members of the public were present during that item, confidential information would be disclosed to them in breach of the obligation of confidence; and nothing in this Part shall be taken to authorise or require the disclosure of confidential information in breach of the obligation of confidence.

(3)     For the purposes of subsection (2) above, “confidential information” means—

(a)     information furnished to the council by a Government department upon terms (however expressed) which forbid the disclosure of the information to the public; and

(b)     information the disclosure of which to the public is prohibited by or under any enactment

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