{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-act-northern-ireland-2014/section-14",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-act-northern-ireland-2014/section-14.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/14",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "14",
  "heading": "Joint committees: further provisions",
  "text": "(1) The councils which appoint a joint committee must pay its expenses—\n(a) in such proportions as they may agree upon; or\n(b) if they fail to agree, as may be determined by the Department.\n(2) The Department, on the application of the councils which appoint a joint committee, may by order make provision for the purpose of—\n(a) constituting the joint committee a body corporate by the name specified in the order;\n(b) fixing the functions of the body corporate so constituted;\n(c) applying to that body any statutory provision, subject to the modifications (if any) specified in the order;\n(d) providing for the winding-up and dissolution of any body corporate so constituted.\n(3) A member of a joint committee or a sub-committee of a joint committee who is not a member of a council has the same exemption from personal liability as a member of a council.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 14 in operation at 2.6.2014 for specified purposes by S.R. 2014/153, art. 3, Sch. 2"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nia/2014/8/section/14",
    "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."
}