Local Government Act 1993 No 30
Current version for 1 March 2013 to date (accessed 22 May 2013 at 18:25)
Chapter 4Part 1Section 11

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.
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