Local Government Act (Northern Ireland) 1972 (c. 9)

PART VIII N.I. LEGAL AND ADMINISTRATIVE

N.I. Legal proceedings

119 Evidence of resolutions, etc. N.I.

Save as otherwise provided in any statutory provision, production of a copy of or of any part of—

(a) any minute of a meeting of a council or of a committee of a council; or

(b) any resolution passed by a council or by a committee of a council; or

(c) any standing orders made by a council;

upon which is endorsed a certificate purporting to be signed by the clerk of the council stating that—

(i)

the copy of, or of part of, the minute of the meeting is a true copy; or

(ii)

the resolution was passed at a specified meeting of the council or, as the case may be, the committee, or was so passed as a special resolution; or

(iii)

the standing orders were made in accordance with any statutory provision applicable thereto;

shall be evidence of the facts stated in the certificate and that in the case of a resolution passed by a committee, the committee had power to pass such a resolution, without proof of the handwriting or official position of any person purporting to sign a certificate in pursuance of this section.

Modifications etc. (not altering text)

C1 S. 119 applied (with mods) (2.7.2013) by The Local Government (Statutory Transition Committees) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2013 (S.R. 2013/179), regs. 1(1), 22, Sch. 2