SCHEDULE 1The Scottish Police Authority

PART 1Status, structure and governance

11Public access

1

The Authority must ensure that its proceedings and those of its committees and sub-committees are held in public.

2

Despite sub-paragraph (1), the Authority or, as the case may be, any of its committees or sub-committees may decide to hold all or part of any proceedings in private.

3

The Authority must publish—

a

agendas for its proceedings and those of its committees and sub-committees,

b

the papers relating to those proceedings,

c

such reports of those proceedings as it thinks fit.

4

Despite sub-paragraph (3), the Authority may decide that all or part of any agenda, paper or report need not be published.

5

The Authority must publish a statement setting out—

a

the circumstances in which its proceedings and those of its committees and sub-committees may be held in private, and

b

the circumstances in which agendas, papers and reports need not be published.