{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-act-northern-ireland-2014/section-41",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-act-northern-ireland-2014/section-41.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/41",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "41",
  "heading": "Power to require decisions to be reconsidered",
  "text": "(1) Standing orders must make provision requiring reconsideration of a decision if 15 per cent. of the members of the council (rounded up to the next highest whole number if necessary) present to the clerk of the council a requisition on either or both of the following grounds—\n(a) that the decision was not arrived at after a proper consideration of the relevant facts and issues;\n(b) that the decision would disproportionately affect adversely any section of the inhabitants of the district.\n(2) Standing orders must require the clerk of the council to obtain an opinion from a practising barrister or solicitor before reconsideration of a decision on a requisition made wholly or partly on the ground mentioned in subsection (1)(b).\n(3) Regulations may amend the percentage mentioned in subsection (1) and the process by which a legal opinion is obtained in subsection (2).\n(4) In this section—\n“decision” means a decision of the council or a committee of the council and includes a decision to make a recommendation;\n“reconsideration” means—\n(a)in the case of a decision of the council, reconsideration by the council;\n(b)in any other case, consideration by the council or any specified committee of the council (whether or not the decision is a decision of that committee);\n“section”, in relation to the inhabitants of a district, means a section of a specified description;\n“specified” means specified in standing orders.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 41 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/41",
    "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."
}