{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-act-northern-ireland-2014/section-80",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-act-northern-ireland-2014/section-80.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/80",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "80",
  "heading": "Boundaries of the general power",
  "text": "(1) If exercise of a pre-commencement power of a council is subject to restrictions, those restrictions apply also to exercise of the general power so far as it is overlapped by the pre-commencement power.\n(2) The general power does not enable a council to do—\n(a) anything which the council is unable to do by virtue of a pre-commencement limitation; or\n(b) anything which the council is unable to do by virtue of a post-commencement limitation which is expressed to apply—\n(i) to the general power;\n(ii) to all of the council's powers; or\n(iii) to all of the council's powers but with exceptions that do not include the general power.\n(3) The general power does not confer power to—\n(a) make or alter arrangements of a kind which may be made under Part 4;\n(b) make or alter arrangements of a kind which are made, or may be made, by or under Part 5 or Part 6;\n(c) make or alter any contracting-out arrangements, or other arrangements within neither of paragraphs (a) and (b), that authorise a person to exercise a function of a council.\n(4) In this section—\n“post-commencement limitation” means a prohibition, restriction or other limitation expressly imposed by a statutory provision which comes into operation after the commencement of section 79;\n“pre-commencement limitation” means a prohibition, restriction or other limitation expressly imposed by a statutory provision (including a provision of or made under this Act) which comes into operation on or before the commencement of section 79;\n“pre-commencement power” means power conferred by a statutory provision which comes into operation before the commencement of section 79.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 80 in operation at 1.4.2015 by S.R. 2015/209, art. 2, Sch. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nia/2014/8/section/80",
    "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."
}