{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-act-northern-ireland-2014/section-115",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-act-northern-ireland-2014/section-115.json",
  "legislation": "nia/2014/8",
  "legislation_title": "Local Government Act (Northern Ireland) 2014",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-act-northern-ireland-2014",
  "path": "section/115",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "115",
  "heading": "Exclusion of non-commercial considerations",
  "text": "In Article 19 of the Local Government (Miscellaneous Provisions) (Northern Ireland) Order 1992 (council contracts: exclusion of non-commercial considerations), after paragraph (6) there shall be added the following paragraphs—\n“(7) The Department may by order provide, in relation to councils, for a specified matter to cease to be a non-commercial matter for the purposes of this Article.\n(8) An order under paragraph (7) may—\n(a) provide for a matter to cease to be a non-commercial matter for specified purposes or to a specified extent;\n(b) apply in relation to specified councils, functions or contracts;\n(c) amend a statutory provision;\n(d) include supplementary, incidental, consequential and transitional provisions.\n(9) No order shall be made under paragraph (7) unless a draft of the order has been laid before, and approved by resolution of, the Assembly.”",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 115 in operation at 1.2.2015 by S.R. 2015/28, art. 2(b)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nia/2014/8/section/115",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:20:21.412545+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."
}