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Section 38 of the Local Government Act (Northern Ireland) 2014 (“the 2014 Act”) provides for regulations to require councils to incorporate such provisions as may be prescribed by the Department in standing orders for regulating their proceedings and business. These regulations prescribe those provisions.
Regulation 2 provides that the standing orders specified in the Schedule to the regulations must be incorporated in a council’s standing orders.
Regulation 3 provides that a council must refrain from modifying its standing orders to enable the standing orders specified in the Schedule to be amended or disapplied, unless permitted by those provisions.
Regulation 4 revokes Schedule 3 to the Local Government (Transitional, Supplementary, Incidental Provisions and Modifications) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2014.
The Schedule specifies standing orders that must be incorporated in a council’s standing orders.
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