Meetings: Compliance and Administration glossary

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Private sector meetings

Meetings of bodies governed by private law and generally closed to the public unless their own rules provide otherwise: company general meetings and board meetings (see the chapters on members' and board meetings), meetings of societies, cooperatives, partnerships, trusts and pension schemes, held on private premises or virtually, and governed by the entity's own constitution within the legal framework set out above.

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Public meetings (in the sense of assemblies)

A distinct sense of 'public meeting': any gathering in a public place, of any organisation, private or public, that the public or a section of it may attend, examined below under police powers and meetings in public places for the police powers and conduct rules that apply to it, which is a different question from whether the meeting is of a public-sector body.

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Public sector meetings

Meetings of state organs and public bodies, generally open to the public and the press unless the law or the body's rules provide for a closed session: sittings of Parliament and the county assemblies (see the assembly chapter), meetings of statutory boards and commissions, and public participation forums that county governments and national agencies are constitutionally required to hold under article 10 and article 232 of the Constitution.

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