{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-finance-act-northern-ireland-2011/section-18",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-finance-act-northern-ireland-2011/section-18.json",
  "legislation": "nia/2011/10",
  "legislation_title": "Local Government Finance Act (Northern Ireland) 2011",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-finance-act-northern-ireland-2011",
  "path": "section/18",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "18",
  "heading": "Control of credit arrangements",
  "text": "(1) A council may not enter into, or vary, a credit arrangement if doing so would result in a breach of—\n(a) the limit determined by it under section 13, or\n(b) any limit applicable to it under section 14.\n(2) In applying those limits for the purposes of subsection (1)—\n(a) entry into a credit arrangement shall be treated as the borrowing of an amount of money equal to the cost of the arrangement, and\n(b) variation of a credit arrangement shall be treated as the borrowing of an amount of money equal to the cost of the variation.\n(3) Regulations may make provision about the calculation for the purposes of subsection (2) of the cost of a credit arrangement or a variation and, in particular, about the treatment of options.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Ss. 17-22 applied (with mods) (2.7.2013) by The Local Government (Statutory Transition Committees) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2013 (S.R. 2013/179), regs. 1(1), 23, Sch. 3"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 18 wholly in operation at 1.4.2012; s. 18 not in operation at Royal Assent see s. 47(1); s. 18 in operation for certain purposes at 10.9.2011 otherwise 1.4.2012 by S.R. 2011/306, art. 2(1)(3), Sch."
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I2",
      "text": "S. 18 in operation at 1.4.2012 in so far as not already in operation by S.R. 2011/306, art. 2(3)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nia/2011/10/section/18",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:20:53.404622+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."
}