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LOCAL GOVERNMENT ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1972 - SECT 129

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129.(1) If the Ministry, after causing a local or other inquiry to be held or
an investigation to be made, is satisfied that a council has failed to
discharge any of its functions, the Ministry may make an order

(a)declaring the council to be in default; and

(b)directing it for the purpose of remedying the default, to take such action,
within such period, as is specified in the order.

(2) If an order under subsection (1) is not complied with, the Ministry may by
order empower an officer of the Ministry to exercise, or procure the exercise
of, the function in question.

(3) Any costs incurred by the Ministry or an officer of the Ministry under an
order made under subsection (2) shall, in the first instance, be defrayed as
expenses of the Ministry, but

(a)the amount of those costs as certified by the Ministry shall, on demand, be
paid to the Ministry by the council; and

(b)any sum demanded under paragraph (a) shall be a debt recoverable summarily
by the Ministry from the council.

Inquiries and investigations.

© 1972 Crown Copyright

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