SCHEDULERULES FOR THE CONDUCT OF MEETINGS AND PROCEEDINGS OF THE JOINT COMMITTEE
Admission to meetings7
1
The following provisions of the 1972 Act shall apply with respect to meetings of the joint committee as if references to a principal council were references to the joint committee—
a
section 100A (admission to meetings of principal councils)4, with the exception of subsections (6), (7) and (8);
b
section 100I(1) (exempt information); and
c
paragraphs 1 to 11 of Schedule 12A (access to information: exempt information).
2
Where the public have been excluded from the whole or part of a meeting of the joint committee in accordance with any provision referred to in sub-paragraph (1), the joint committee may exclude co-opted members and observers from that meeting or (as the case may be) the relevant part of that meeting.