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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-contracts-regulations-northern-ireland-2011/note",
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  "legislation": "nisr/2011/228",
  "legislation_title": "The Local Government (Contracts) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2011",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-contracts-regulations-northern-ireland-2011",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
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  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nThese Regulations make provision in connection with certain certification requirements a contract, which is to be a certified contract for the purposes of the Local Government (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act (Northern Ireland) 2010, must satisfy.\nRegulation 3 prescribes the persons to whom a district council is required to give a copy of a certificate. Every district council must give a copy of any certificate issued by it to the local government auditor and each person with whom the contract has been, or is to be, executed.\nRegulation 4 prescribes how a district council is required to deal with certain matters in a certificate where it is stated in the certificate that the statutory provision, or one of the statutory provisions, conferring the power to enter into the contract for which the certificate is issued is section 99 of the Local Government Act (Northern Ireland) 1972.\nRegulation 5 makes provision about the signature of a certificate issued with respect to a certified contract. A certificate issued by a district council must be signed by its chief financial officer or a person who, as respects all or most of the duties of his post, is required to report directly or is directly accountable to the chief financial officer.\nThese Regulations also apply to a joint committee–\n(a) which has been established under section 19(1) of the Local Government Act (Northern Ireland) 1972;\n(b) which has been constituted as a body corporate by an order made under section 19(9) of that Act; and\n(c) to which Part 1 of the Local Government (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act (Northern Ireland) 2010 has been applied by such an order.",
  "extent": null,
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  "version": "current",
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2011/228/note",
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  "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."
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