{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-local-government-northern-ireland-order-2005/article-16",
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  "legislation": "ukdsi/2005/0110491025",
  "legislation_title": "The Local Government (Northern Ireland) Order 2005",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-local-government-northern-ireland-order-2005",
  "path": "article/16",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "16",
  "heading": "Inspection of statements of accounts and auditors' reports",
  "text": "(1) Any member of the public may—\n(a) inspect and make copies of any statement of accounts prepared by a local government body pursuant to regulations under Article 24;\n(b) inspect and make copies of any report (other than an immediate report) made to the body by a local government auditor;\n(c) require copies of any such statement or report to be delivered to him on payment of a reasonable sum for each copy.\n(2) A document which a person is entitled to inspect under this Article may be inspected at all reasonable times and without payment.\n(3) A person who has the custody of any such document and—\n(a) obstructs a person in the exercise of a right under this Article to inspect or make copies of the document, or\n(b) refuses to give copies of the document to a person entitled under this Article to obtain them,\nis guilty of an offence and liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 3 on the standard scale.\n(4) References in this Article to copies of a document include references to any part of it.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2005/0110491025/article/16",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T15:24:11.541566+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."
}