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ID: LSAT-LR-013
Section: Logical Reasoning
Topic: Principle
Difficulty level: Easy

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Principle: A public body should publish its reasons for a decision whenever the decision affects people who had no chance to be heard before it was taken.

Application: The parks committee voted at its June meeting to close the boating lake at the end of the season, and it was therefore obliged to publish its reasons.

Which one of the following, if true, most helps to justify the application of the principle?

ASeveral members of the parks committee voted against the closure, and the minutes record their objections.

BThe committee's June meeting was open to any member of the public who wished to attend, and several people spoke there about the lake's future.

CThe committee published its reasons for the closure within a week of the vote, in a notice posted at the lake.

DThe parks committee is a public body, funded out of the town's rates and answerable to the council that appoints its members.

EThe people who used the boating lake regularly were given no notice of the vote and no chance to put their case to the committee, and it is they who lose by the closure.

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