Local Government Act (Northern Ireland) 2014 No. 8

PART 12 N.I. PERFORMANCE IMPROVEMENT

Modifications etc. (not altering text)

C1 Pt. 12 (except ss. 85, 87, 90(1)(a), 92(2)(a)(ii)(4)(5)) applied (27.8.2021) by Local Government (Meetings and Performance) Act (Northern Ireland) 2021 (c. 8), ss. 3(3), 6(1)

C2 Pt. 12 applied (27.8.2021) by Local Government (Meetings and Performance) Act (Northern Ireland) 2021 (c. 8), ss. 4(2), 6(1)

C3 Pt. 12: power to disapply conferred (27.8.2021) by Local Government (Meetings and Performance) Act (Northern Ireland) 2021 (c. 8), ss. 4(1), 6(1)

C4 Pt. 12: power to modify conferred (27.8.2021) by Local Government (Meetings and Performance) Act (Northern Ireland) 2021 (c. 8), ss. 4(1), 6(1)

Improvement objectives N.I.

Improvement objectives N.I.

85—(1) For each financial year, a council must set itself objectives for improving the exercise of its functions during that year (“improvement objectives”).

(2) A council must make arrangements to secure achievement of its improvement objectives.

(3) An improvement objective must be framed so as to improve the exercise of the function or functions to which it relates in terms of at least one of the following—

(a) strategic effectiveness;

(b) service quality;

(c) service availability;

(d) fairness;

(e) sustainability;

(f) efficiency; and

(g) innovation.

Modifications etc. (not altering text)

C5 S. 85 excluded (27.8.2021) by Local Government (Meetings and Performance) Act (Northern Ireland) 2021 (c. 8), ss. 3(1)(2)(a), 6(1)

Commencement Information

I1 S. 85 in operation at 1.4.2015 by S.R. 2015/209, art. 2, Sch. 1