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Local Government Act 2002

Council-controlled organisations and council organisations - Monitoring and reporting

71: Protection from disclosure of sensitive information

You could also call this:

“Keeping some special council information private”

You don’t have to include certain sensitive information in reports that council-controlled organisations must make. These reports include statements of intent, annual reports, financial statements, half-yearly reports, and quarterly reports.

If someone could ask for this information under the Local Government Official Information and Meetings Act 1987 and it could be properly kept secret, you don’t need to put it in these reports.

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Part 5 Council-controlled organisations and council organisations
Monitoring and reporting

71Protection from disclosure of sensitive information

  1. Nothing in this Act requires the inclusion in any statement of intent, annual report, financial statement, half-yearly report, or quarterly report required to be produced under this Act by a council-controlled organisation of any information that may be properly withheld if a request for that information were made under the Local Government Official Information and Meetings Act 1987.

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Notes
  • Section 71: amended, on , by section 26 of the Local Government Act 2002 Amendment Act 2019 (2019 No 54).