{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-act-northern-ireland-2014/section-16",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-act-northern-ireland-2014/section-16.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/16",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "16",
  "heading": "Declaration required of persons who are not members of council",
  "text": "(1) A person who—\n(a) is a member of a committee appointed under section 11 or 12; but\n(b) is not a member of the council which appointed that committee,\nmust not act as a member of that committee until the person has made, and served on the clerk of the council, a declaration in the form set out in Schedule 3.\n(2) This section applies to a joint committee and a sub-committee appointed under section 11 or 12 as it applies to a committee appointed under section 11 or 12 except that in relation to a joint committee—\n(a) the reference in subsection (1)(b) to the council which appointed that committee is to be taken as a reference to one of the councils which appointed that joint committee; and\n(b) the reference in subsection (1) to the clerk of the council is to be taken as a reference to the clerk of every council which appointed that joint committee.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "S. 16 applied (with Modifications) (28.5.2014) by The Local Government (Transitional, Supplementary, Incidental Provisions and Modifications) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2014 (S.R. 2014/148), regs. 1(1), 5(4)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 16 in operation at 2.6.2014 by S.R. 2014/153, art. 2, Sch. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nia/2014/8/section/16",
    "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."
}