{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/chronically-sick-and-disabled-persons-northern-ireland-act-1978/section-11",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/chronically-sick-and-disabled-persons-northern-ireland-act-1978/section-11.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1978/53",
  "legislation_title": "Chronically Sick and Disabled Persons (Northern Ireland) Act 1978",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/chronically-sick-and-disabled-persons-northern-ireland-act-1978",
  "path": "section/11",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "11",
  "heading": "Co-option of chronically sick or disabled persons to committees of district council.",
  "text": "Where a district council appoints a committee of the council under any statutory provision as defined by section 1 of the Interpretation Act (Northern Ireland) 1954, and the members of the committee include or may include persons who are not members of the council, then in considering the appointment to the committee of such persons regard shall be had, if the committee is concerned with matters in which the chronically sick or disabled have special needs, to the desirability of appointing to the committee persons with experience of work among and of the needs of the chronically sick and disabled, and of the person or persons with that experience being or including a chronically sick or disabled person or persons.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "1954 c. 33 (N.I.)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1978/53/section/11",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:21:27.216531+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}