(1)A council may maintain an index of local charities or of any class of local charities in the council's area, and may publish information contained in the index, or summaries or extracts taken from it.
(2)A council proposing to establish or maintaining under this section an index of local charities or of any class of local charities must, on request, be supplied by the Commission free of charge—
(a)with copies of such entries in the register of charities as are relevant to the index, or
(b)with particulars of any changes in the entries of which copies have been supplied before;
and the Commission may arrange that it will without further request supply a council with particulars of any such changes.
(3)An index maintained under this section must be open to public inspection at all reasonable times.