These are the Publication Schemes which the Licensing Board for Aberdeenshire must adopt and maintain under Section 23 of the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002 . Use our map to find out your area.
Publication Schemes
The Scheme relates to the publication of information by the Board and specifies:
- classes of information which the Board publishes or intends to publish
- the manner in which information of each class is, or is intended to be, published
- whether the published information is, or is intended to be, available to the public free of charge or on payment
In adopting or reviewing its publication scheme the Board has regard to the public interest in:
- allowing public access to information held by it and in particular to information which
(i) relates to the provision of services by it, the cost to it of providing them or the standards attained by services so provided; or
(ii) consists of facts, or analyses, on the basis of which decisions of importance to the public have been made by it; - the publication of reasons for decisions made by it.
Whilst the Board has regard to the public interest in the information it holds, and to the value of openness and transparency, it also has regard to:
- the quasi-judicial nature of its function, and
- the necessity of distancing the licensing function from the political forum
