To approve the minutes of the meeting held on 29 March 2012 (PB3) and to receive information arising from them.

The Minutes of the meeting held on 26 March 2012 (PB3) were approved and signed.

The Democracy & Organisation Committee, as the Employing Authority, has delegated to this Sub-Committee the determination of benefits for individual applications for early retirement.

Report (PB5) set out 6 applications for early retirement in total.

The public should be excluded during this item because its discussion in public would be likely to lead to the disclosure to members of the public present of information in the following prescribed categories:

1.                  Information relating to any individual;

2.         Information which is likely to reveal the identity of an individual;

3.         Information relating to the financial or business affairs of any particular person (including the authority holding that information)

and since it is considered that, in all the circumstances of the case, the public interest in maintaining the exemption outweighs the public interest in disclosing the information, in that such disclosure would infringe the rights of the individual to privacy contrary to the general law and the duty of the authority to respect human rights and to comply with that law and contrary to the authority’s duties as a fair employer.

The Sub-Committee is RECOMMENDED to:

(a)       note the cases for early retirement and to determine the individual benefits to be paid; and

(b)       receive any information arising from previous cases.

The Sub–Committee resolved that the public be excluded for the duration of item 5 in the Agenda since it was likely that if they were present during this item there would be disclosure of exempt information as defined in Part 1 of Schedule 12 A to the Local Government ACT 1972 (as amended) and specified in relation to the item in the Agenda and since it was considered that, in all the circumstances of each case, the public interest in maintaining the exemption outweighs the public interest in disclosing the information.

The Democracy & Organisation Committee, as the Employing Authority, had delegated to this Sub-Committee the determination of benefits for individual applications for early retirement.

The Sub-Committee considered a report (PB5) which set out 6 such applications.

Officers amended Annex 5 to correct the spelling of the forename, and Annex 6  by deletion of the proposed retirement date ’31 May 2012’ and substitution of ’30 June 2012’

Having considered the 6 applications in the report the Sub-Committee:

RESOLVED:  to note the cases for early retirement and determine the individual benefits to be paid as set out in the Annexes to the report (PB6) subject to the amendments to Annexes 5 and 6 referred to above.