{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-act-northern-ireland-1972/section-94",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-act-northern-ireland-1972/section-94.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/94",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "94",
  "heading": "Evidence of bye-laws.",
  "text": "(1) The production of a printed copy of a bye-law purporting to be made by a council, upon which is endorsed a certificate purporting to be signed by the clerk of the council stating—\n(a) that the bye-law was made by the council;\n(b) that the copy is a true copy of the bye-law;\n(c) that on a specified date the bye-law was confirmed by the government department named in the certificate or was so confirmed subject to any specified consents;\n(d) the date, if any, fixed by the Ministry concerned for the coming into operation of the bye-law;\nshall be evidence of the facts stated in the certificate, and without proof of the handwriting or official position of any person purporting to sign a certificate in pursuance of this section.\n(2) The validity of a bye-law which has been confirmed by a government department shall not be questioned in any legal proceedings on the ground that that department is not the Ministry concerned.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Ss. 91-94 applied (with modifications) (9.6.2010) by River Bann Navigation Order (Northern Ireland) 2010 (S.R. 2010/126), arts. 1(1), 3(2)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/apni/1972/9/section/94",
    "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."
}