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LOCAL GOVERNMENT ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1972 - SECT 38

Expenses incurred in attending conferences and meetings.

38.(1) Subject to subsection (3), a council may make payments towards
expenditure reasonably incurred by a councillor or an officer of the council
in respect of attendance authorised by the council at any conference or
meeting, whether inside or outside the United Kingdom, convened by any person
or body (other than a person or body convening it in the course of a trade or
business or a body whose objects are wholly or partly political) for the
purpose of discussing matters connected with the discharge of the functions of
the council or the development of trade, industry or commerce in the district
or otherwise affecting the district or its inhabitants.

(2) Payments made under subsection (1) may include any reasonable expenses
incurred in purchasing reports of the proceedings of any such conference or
meeting.

(3) The payments which a council may make under subsection (1) towards
expenditure incurred by a councillor for any purpose corresponding to a
purpose for which payments may be made under section 36 shall be at rates to
be determined by the council but not exceeding the rates [determined by the
Department] under section 36 for payments for the corresponding purpose.

(4) In this section "councillor" includes a member of a committee or
sub-committee of a council, whether he is a member of the council or not.

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