{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pollution-control-and-local-government-northern-ireland-order-1978/article-61",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pollution-control-and-local-government-northern-ireland-order-1978/article-61.json",
  "legislation": "nisi/1978/1049",
  "legislation_title": "Pollution Control and Local Government (Northern Ireland) Order 1978",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pollution-control-and-local-government-northern-ireland-order-1978",
  "path": "article/61",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "61",
  "heading": "Provision by district councils of information for the Department",
  "text": "(1) The Department may, for the purpose of obtaining information about air pollutants, direct a district council to make such arrangements as may be specified in the direction—\n(a) for the provision, installation, operation and maintenance by the district council of apparatus for measuring and recording air pollution; and\n(b) for transmitting the information so obtained to the Department.\n(2) Where apparatus is provided under a direction under paragraph (1) the Department shall defray the whole of the capital expenditure incurred by a district council in providing and installing the apparatus.\n(3) Before giving a direction under paragraph (1) the Department shall consult the district council, and the district council shall comply with any direction given under that paragraph.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisi/1978/1049/article/61",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T04:53:02.753419+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."
}