PART III PROTECTED INFORMATION 14 Protection of deliberations of Cabinet and local government bodies (1) No information relating to the deliberations of Cabinet or any of its committees shall be revealed or disclosed to any person who is not authorised to have access to such information. (2) The information referred to in subsection (1) shall include— (a) any advice, policy considerations and recommendations made to Cabinet; and (b) any draft legislation or regulations prepared for submission or submitted to Cabinet. (3) Subsection (1) shall not apply to information contained in a record that has been in existence for twenty-five or more years. (4) No information relating to the deliberations of a local government body which were held in camera shall be revealed or disclosed to any person who is not authorised to have access to such information. (5) Subsection (4) shall not apply to circumstances where the deliberations, resolution or draft resolution was made or considered in the presence of members of the public. 15 Protection of advice relating to policy (1) The head of a public body may not disclose to an applicant information relating to advice or recommendations given to the President, a Cabinet Minister or a public body. (2) Subsection (1) shall not apply to the following classes of information— (a) a public opinion poll; (b) a statistical survey; (c) an appraisal of an employee of the public body; (d) a forecast of the economy; (e) information relating to the state of the environment; (f) an audit or performance report of a public body; (g) a consumer test report or a report of a test carried out on a product to test equipment of the public body; (h) a feasibility or technical study, including a cost estimate, relating to a policy or project of the public body; (i) a report on the results of a field research undertaken before a policy proposal is formulated; (j) a report of a committee, council or similar body that has been established to consider any matter and make reports or recommendations to a public body; (k) a plan or proposal to establish a new programme or to change a programme, where the original plan or proposal had been approved or rejected by the head of the public body; (l) information that the head of the public body has cited publicly as the basis for making a decision or formulating a policy; 11