The Local Government (Constituting a Joint Committee a Body Corporate) Order (Northern Ireland) 2015

Interpretation

2.  In this Order—

“the Act” means the Local Government Act (Northern Ireland) 2014;

“the 2012 Order” means the Local Government (Constituting Joint Committees as Bodies Corporate) Order (Northern Ireland) 2012(1);

“existing arc21” means the arc21 constituted under Article 3(1) of the 2012 Order;

“arc21” means the arc21 constituted under Article 3 of this Order;

“SWaMP2008” means the body corporate constituted under Article 3(2) of the 2012 Order;

“the joint committee” means the committee appointed under section 11(1) of the Act by participant councils for the purpose of discharging any functions in pursuance of the arrangements made under Part 4 of that Act;

“the arrangements” means the arrangements made by the participant councils to form a joint committee to implement the waste management plan;

“the former councils” means Antrim Borough Council, Ards Borough Council, Ballymena Borough Council, Belfast City Council, Carrickfergus Borough Council, Castlereagh Borough Council, Down District Council, Larne Borough Council, Lisburn City Council, Newtownabbey Borough Council, and North Down Borough Council;

“the participant councils” means the councils for the districts of Antrim and Newtownabbey, North Down and Ards, Mid and East Antrim, Belfast, Lisburn and Castlereagh, and Newry, Mourne and Down;

“the waste management plan” means the sub-regional waste management plan jointly determined by the former councils, pursuant to Article 23 of the Waste and Contaminated Land (Northern Ireland) Order 1997(2) and references to the waste management plan shall be construed as references to the plan as revised or replaced from time to time.

(1)

S.R. 2012 No. 10

(2)

S.I. 1997/2778 (N.I. 19)