{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-act-northern-ireland-1972/section-119",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-act-northern-ireland-1972/section-119.json",
  "legislation": "apni/1972/9",
  "legislation_title": "Local Government Act (Northern Ireland) 1972",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-act-northern-ireland-1972",
  "path": "section/119",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "119",
  "heading": "Evidence of resolutions, etc.",
  "text": "Save as otherwise provided in any statutory provision, production of a copy of or of any part of—\n(a) any minute of a meeting of a council or of a committee of a council; or\n(b) any resolution passed by a council or by a committee of a council; or\n(c) any standing orders made by a council;\nupon which is endorsed a certificate purporting to be signed by the clerk of the council stating that—\n(i)the copy of, or of part of, the minute of the meeting is a true copy; or\n(ii)the resolution was passed at a specified meeting of the council or, as the case may be, the committee, or was so passed as a special resolution; or\n(iii)the standing orders were made in accordance with any statutory provision applicable thereto;\nshall be evidence of the facts stated in the certificate and that in the case of a resolution passed by a committee, the committee had power to pass such a resolution, without proof of the handwriting or official position of any person purporting to sign a certificate in pursuance of this section.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "S. 119 applied (with mods) (2.7.2013) by The Local Government (Statutory Transition Committees) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2013 (S.R. 2013/179), regs. 1(1), 22, Sch. 2"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/apni/1972/9/section/119",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T21:29:08.839580+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."
}