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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-statutory-transition-committees-regulations-northern-ireland-2013/regulation-8",
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  "legislation": "nisr/2013/179",
  "legislation_title": "The Local Government (Statutory Transition Committees) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2013",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-statutory-transition-committees-regulations-northern-ireland-2013",
  "path": "regulation/8",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": "Establishment and membership of statutory transition committees",
  "text": "(1) Subject to paragraph (2), a vacancy on a statutory transition committee shall be filled by a councillor nominated from the predecessor council of which the vacating member is a councillor.\n(2) In respect of the statutory transition committee in relation to the new council for the district of Belfast, where a position is vacated by a member who is a councillor of Castlereagh Borough Council or Lisburn City Council, the vacancy shall be filled by a councillor appointed by that member’s council.\n(3) A vacancy on a statutory transition committee shall be filled as soon as is practicable.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2013/179/regulation/8",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T01:10:15.952114+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."
}