PART 4DUTIES OF NORWICH CITY COUNCIL AND NORFOLK COUNTY COUNCIL RELEVANT TO TRANSITION
General transitional duties of Norwich City Council and Norfolk County Council
9.—(1) It shall be the duty of Norwich City Council and Norfolk County Council—
(a)to take, whether alone or together, such steps as may be necessary to prepare for the transfer to Norwich City Council of Norfolk County Council’s functions, property, rights and liabilities relating to Norwich;
(b)to consult and co-operate with each other in order to secure the economic, effective, efficient and timely transfer of those functions, property, rights and liabilities; and
(c)generally, to exercise their functions so as to further the purposes of this Order.
(2) Without prejudice to the generality of paragraph (1), Norwich City Council and Norfolk County Council shall provide such information relating to its functions as the other council or the Implementation Executive may reasonably request for the purpose of implementing this Order.
(3) Any person authorised in that behalf by the body making the request shall be entitled, at all reasonable times, on producing evidence of such authority (if so required by the council from which the information is sought)—
(a)to inspect any record belonging to or under the control of the council providing the information and relating to that council or its functions; and
(b)to take, or be supplied with, a copy of any such record or part of it.
(4) The rights conferred by paragraph (3) include the right to require any record which is not in legible form to be made available in legible form so that the authorised person may inspect or copy it or be supplied with copies.