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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-act-northern-ireland-2014/schedule-5/paragraph-4",
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  "legislation": "nia/2014/8",
  "legislation_title": "Local Government Act (Northern Ireland) 2014",
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  "number": "4",
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  "text": "(1) If a requisition from not less than five members of the council is served on the chair, the chair must call a meeting of the council to be held within 14 days from the date on which the requisition is served.\n(2) If the chair—\n(a) refuses to call a meeting of the council; or\n(b) does not call a meeting of the council within seven days from the date on which the requisition is served,\nnot less than five members of the council may on that refusal or on the expiration of those seven days call a meeting of the council.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 5 para. 4 in operation at 2.6.2014 for specified purposes by S.R. 2014/153, art. 3, Sch. 2"
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  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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