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Local Government Official Information and Meetings Act 1987

Local authority meetings

51A: Public notification of resolution at extraordinary meeting

You could also call this:

"Telling the public about decisions made at special council meetings"

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If you are part of a local authority, you must tell the public about any decisions made at a special meeting as soon as you can. You do not have to do this if the decision was made in a private part of the meeting or if you told the public about the meeting at least 5 working days before it happened. When you tell the public about the decision, you are talking about the main issue that the special meeting was called for, which is what you decided on.

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Part 7Local authority meetings

51APublic notification of resolution at extraordinary meeting

  1. A local authority must, as soon as practicable, publicly notify any resolution passed at an extraordinary meeting of the local authority unless—

  2. the resolution was passed at a meeting or part of a meeting from which the public was excluded; or
    1. the extraordinary meeting was publicly notified at least 5 working days before the day on which the meeting was held.

      1. For the purposes of this section, resolution means the resolution on the matter or matters for which the extraordinary meeting was held.

      Notes
      • Section 51A: substituted, on , by section 4 of the Local Government Official Information and Meetings Amendment Act 2004 (2004 No 65).