{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-act-northern-ireland-1972/section-42",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-act-northern-ireland-1972/section-42.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/42",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "42",
  "heading": "Councillors not to be appointed officers.",
  "text": "(1) Subject to subsection (2), a person shall, so long as he is and for twelve months after he has ceased to be, a councillor, be disqualified for being appointed by the council to any paid office which is prescribed under section 4(1)(a) .\n(2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(3) In this section—\n“council” includes a committee or sub-committee of a council;\n“councillor” includes a member of such a committee or sub-committee, whether he is a member of the council or not.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "1965 c.13 (NI), 1970 c.9 (NI), 1981 NI 3"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in s. 42 inserted (1.2.2015) by Local Government Act (Northern Ireland) 2014 (c. 8), s. 129, Sch. 9 para. 2(a) (with s. 124(4)); S.R. 2015/28, art. 2(c)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "S. 42(2) repealed (1.2.2015) by Local Government Act (Northern Ireland) 2014 (c. 8), s. 129, Sch. 9 para. 2(b), Sch. 10 (with s. 124(4)); S.R. 2015/28, art. 2(c)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "S. 42 applied (with modifications) (1.4.2012) by Justice Act (Northern Ireland) 2011 (c. 24), s. 111(3), Sch. 1 para. 20 (with s. 106(4)); S.R. 2012/142, art. 2(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C2",
      "text": "S. 42 applied (with modifications) (1.4.2012) by Justice Act (Northern Ireland) 2011 (c. 24), s. 111(3), Sch. 2 para. 20 (with s. 106(4)); S.R. 2012/142, art. 2(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C3",
      "text": "S. 42 applied (with modifications) (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/42",
    "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."
}