Harbours Act 2015

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Accountability of chairperson and chief executive to local authority

23. (1) The elected council of a local authority specified in an order under section 8 may by resolution require the chairperson, or the chief executive, or both, of the transferred company to which the order relates, to attend before that council to give account for the administration of the transferred company.

(2) Neither the chairperson nor the chief executive of a transferred company referred to in subsection (1) shall be required to attend before the elected council if a resolution referred to in that subsection was made within a period of 6 months of the making of the last such resolution.

(3) Any account given under subsection (1) shall relate to the functions of the transferred company under this Act and the Act of 1996 but that subsection shall not require there to be disclosed any information that is determined by the transferred company to be of a commercially sensitive nature.