Local Government Act (Northern Ireland) 2014

Discharge of functions of and by another council

25.—(1) Regulations may make provision for or in connection with enabling an executive of a council to arrange for the discharge of any functions which, under executive arrangements, are the responsibility of the executive—

(a) by another council; or

(b) by the executive of another council.

(2) Regulations may make provision for or in connection with enabling a council to arrange for the discharge of any of its functions by the executive of another council.

(3) The reference in subsection (2) to the functions of a council, in a case where the council is operating executive arrangements, is a reference to the functions which, under those arrangements, are not the responsibility of the council’s executive.

(4) Regulations under subsection (1) or (2) may, in particular, include provision—

(a) requiring, in the case of arrangements for the discharge of any functions by the executive of another council, the approval of the other council of which the executive is part to such arrangements;

(b) which, in the case of arrangements for the discharge of any functions by another council, enables any of those functions to be delegated;

(c) which, in the case of arrangements for the discharge of any functions by the executive of another council, enables any of those functions to be delegated.

(5) The provisions made under subsection (4)(b) may, in particular, apply or reproduce (with or without modifications) any provisions of sections 7 and 10.

(6) The provision made under subsection (4)(c) may, in particular, apply or reproduce (with or without modifications) any provisions of section 24.