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LOCAL GOVERNMENT ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1972 - SECT 19

Joint committees.

19.(1) A council may concur with any one or more than one other council in
appointing a committee of those councils (in this Act referred to as a "joint
committee") for any purpose in which they are jointly interested, and may
delegate to the joint committee, with or without restrictions or conditions as
the council thinks fit, any functions of the council relating to the purpose
for which the joint committee is formed, except the power of making a rate, or
(except where the joint committee is constituted as a body corporate by an
order under subsection (9) and power in that behalf is conferred by the order)
the power of borrowing money, or of acquiring, holding or disposing of land,
and any transferred provision regulating the exercise of a function by a
council shall also apply to regulate the exercise of that function by a
joint committee.

(2) Subject to the provisions of this section, the number of members of a
joint committee, their term of office and the area, if any, with respect to
which the joint committee is to exercise its functions shall be fixed by the
appointing councils.

(3) The persons appointed by a council to a joint committee may include
persons who are not councillors, but at least two-thirds of the members of the
joint committee who are so appointed shall be councillors.

(4) A joint committee may appoint a sub-committee for the exercise of any
function which in the opinion of the joint committee would be better exercised
by a sub-committee.

(5) A sub-committee appointed under subsection (4) may include persons who are
not councillors, but the majority of the members of every sub-committee shall
be councillors of the councils which appointed the joint committee.

(6) Every member of a joint committee or sub-committee who at the time of his
appointment was a member of a council which concurred in appointing the
joint committee shall, upon ceasing to be a member of that council, also cease
to be a member of the joint committee or sub-committee.

(7) A member of a joint committee, unless his term of office earlier expires,
shall continue in office until the day after the first meeting of the council
by which he was appointed that is held after an election of councillors (other
than an election to fill a casual vacancy), and at that first meeting the
council shall appoint the members of the joint committee whom it is entitled
to appoint.

(8) A council which appoints members of a joint committee, or a
joint committee which appoints a sub-committee, may revoke any appointment
made under this section, and councils which concur in delegating any function,
or imposing any restriction or condition, under subsection (1), or in fixing
anything under subsection (2), may concur in revoking or varying anything so
delegated, imposed or fixed.

(9) The Ministry concerned, on the application of all the councils concerned,
may by order make provision for the purpose of

(a)constituting a joint committee a body corporate with perpetual succession
by the name specified in the order;

(b)fixing the functions of the body corporate so constituted;

(c)applying to that body any transferred provision, subject to the
modifications (if any) specified in the order;

(d)providing for the winding-up and dissolution of any body corporate so
constituted.

(10) A member of a joint committee or sub-committee who is not a councillor
shall have the same exemption from personal liability as if he were a
councillor.


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