{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/interpretation-act-northern-ireland-1954/section-44",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/interpretation-act-northern-ireland-1954/section-44.json",
  "legislation": "apni/1954/33",
  "legislation_title": "Interpretation Act (Northern Ireland) 1954",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/interpretation-act-northern-ireland-1954",
  "path": "section/44",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "44",
  "heading": "Definitions for local government purposes.",
  "text": "In an enactment the expression—\n“borough” when used in relation to local government, shall mean a municipal borough, ... ;\n“chairman”, when used in relation to a district council, shall include a mayor or lord mayor, and “vice-chairman”, when so used, shall include a deputy mayor or deputy lord mayor;\n“councillor” shall include an alderman;\n“district”, when used in relation to local government, shall mean a local government district within the meaning of section 1 of the Local Government Act (Northern Ireland) 1972 and shall include a district which is a borough;\n“district council” shall mean the council of a district;\n“district rate” means a rate made by a district council under the Rates (Northern Ireland) Order 1977;\n“local government auditor” shall mean the person designated as such under Article 4 of the Local Government (Northern Ireland) Order 2005;\n“municipal borough” shall mean any district for which a charter of incorporation of inhabitants, or a charter designating the district a borough, is in force, and shall include a borough which is a city;\nDefinition rep. by SI 1999/663",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "SI 1999/663"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "1972 c. 9 (NI)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "1977 NI 28"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in s. 44 substituted (2.6.2014) by Local Government Act (Northern Ireland) 2014 (c. 8), ss. 110(1), 129 (with s. 124(4)); S.R. 2014/153, art. 2, Sch. 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "2003 NI 5"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "S. 44: words in definition of \"local government auditor\" substituted (1.4.2006) by Local Government (Northern Ireland) Order 2005 (S.I. 2005/1968 (N.I. 18)), arts. 1(2), 28(1); S.R. 2006/151, art. 2, Sch. (with art. 4)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F7",
      "text": "1972 c. 9 (NI)"
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "1972 c. 9 (NI)"
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M2",
      "text": "1977 NI 28"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/apni/1954/33/section/44",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T21:33:32.200749+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."
}