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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-act-northern-ireland-2014/schedule-1/paragraph-14",
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  "legislation": "nia/2014/8",
  "legislation_title": "Local Government Act (Northern Ireland) 2014",
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  "path": "schedule/1/paragraph/14",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "14",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) The chair of a council who is continuously absent from the district of the council, except in case of illness, for a period exceeding three months, ceases as from the expiration of that period to hold office as chair.\n(2) Where a person ceases to be chair of a council under sub-paragraph (1), the council must forthwith declare the office of chair vacant and publish a notice to that effect.\n(3) The notice must be signed by the clerk of the council.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
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      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 1 para. 14 in operation at 2.6.2014 for specified purposes by S.R. 2014/153, art. 3, Sch. 2"
    }
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  },
  "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."
}