Public Bodies (Admission to Meetings) Act 1960

Public Bodies (Admission to Meetings) Act, 1960^[1]
Dates
Parliament of the United Kingdom
Citation	8 & 9 Eliz. 2 c. 67
Royal Assent	27 October 1960
Status: Unknown

The Public Bodies (Admission to Meetings) Act 1960 was an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom which allowed members of the public and press to attend meetings of certain public bodies. The Act is notable for having been initiated as a private member's bill drawn up by Margaret Thatcher, and also for being introduced in a maiden speech, a unique feat for successful legislation.^[2] On 5 February 1960,^[3] Thatcher's speech was delivered without notes, and was lauded as the best maiden speech amongst the 1959 new intake.^[2]

The Act was introduced primarily to prevent circumvention of rules prohibiting councils from excluding the press by calling a Committee of the Whole,^[4] a tactic that had been used by Labour-controlled councils during an industrial dispute in the printing industry in 1958. A similar bill had been introduced a number of years earlier by Lionel Heald, who helped guide Thatcher through the legislative process.

Footnotes

↑ Short title as conferred by s. 3 of the Act; the modern convention for the citation of short titles omits the comma after the word "Act"
1 2 Blundell (2008), p. 49
↑ http://www.margaretthatcher.org/speeches/displaydocument.asp?docid=101055
↑ Blundell (2008), p. 47–8

References

Blundell, John (2008). Margaret Thatcher: A Portrait of the Iron Lady. New York: Algora Publishing. ISBN 978-0-87586-630-7.

External links

Text of the Public Bodies (Admission to Meetings) Act 1960 as in force today (including any amendments) within the United Kingdom, from the UK Statute Law Database

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