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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/mental-health-northern-ireland-order-1986/schedule-4/paragraph-6",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/mental-health-northern-ireland-order-1986/schedule-4/paragraph-6.json",
  "legislation": "nisi/1986/595",
  "legislation_title": "The Mental Health (Northern Ireland) Order 1986",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/mental-health-northern-ireland-order-1986",
  "path": "schedule/4/paragraph/6",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "6",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) Subject to the provisions of this Schedule, the meetings and proceedings of the Commission, and of any committee thereof, shall be conducted in accordance with standing orders made from time to time by the Commission.\n(2) The proceedings of the Commission, or of any committee thereof, shall not be invalidated by any vacancy in the membership of the Commission or any defect in the appointment of any member.\n(3) Sections 23 to 27 of the Local Government Act (Northern Ireland) 1972 (which provide for public access to meetings of a district council and for the publication of information concerning such meetings) shall, with the modifications set out in sub-paragraph (4), apply in relation to meetings of the Commission as they apply in relation to meetings of a district council.\n(4) The modifications are—\n(a) any reference to a district council shall be read as a reference to the Commission; and\n(b) any reference to councillors or members of the council shall be read as a reference to members of the Commission.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "2001 c. 3 (NI)"
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisi/1986/595/schedule/4/paragraph/6",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T04:48:38.738443+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."
}