{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-act-northern-ireland-2014/section-19",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-act-northern-ireland-2014/section-19.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/19",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "19",
  "heading": "Permitted forms of governance",
  "text": "(1) A council must operate a committee system unless the council decides to operate executive arrangements or prescribed arrangements.\n(2) A decision to operate executive arrangements or prescribed arrangements must be taken by a qualified majority.\n(3) Executive arrangements must conform with any provisions made by or under this Act which relate to such arrangements (see, in particular, Part 6).\n(4) A committee system must conform with any provisions made by or under this Act which relate to such a system (see, in particular, Part 4).\n(5) In this Part—\n“executive arrangements” means arrangements by a council—\n(a)for and in connection with the creation and operation of an executive of the council, and\n(b)under which certain functions of the council are the responsibility of the executive;\n“committee system” means arrangements made by a council, which does not operate executive arrangements or prescribed arrangements, for or in connection with the discharge of its functions in accordance with Part 4;\n“prescribed arrangements” means such arrangements as may be prescribed in regulations made under section 20.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 19 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/19",
    "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."
}