Meetings of a local authority executive, or a committee of such an executive, are to be open to the public or held in private.
Subject to regulations under section 9GA(4), it is for a local authority executive to decide which of its meetings, and which of the meetings of any committee of the executive, are to be open to the public and which of those meetings are to be held in private.
A written record must be kept of prescribed decisions made at meetings of local authority executives, or committees of such executives, which are held in private.
A written record must be kept of prescribed decisions made by individual members of local authority executives.
Written records under subsection (3) or (4) must include reasons for the decisions to which they relate.
In this section "prescribed" means prescribed by regulations made by the Secretary of State.