Local Government Act (Northern Ireland) 2014 No. 8

SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 1 POSITIONS OF RESPONSIBILITY

PART 1 FILLING POSITIONS OF RESPONSIBILITY BY NOMINATION

The formula

3.—(1) Subject to sub-paragraphs (2) and (3), the formula is—

where—

S

=

the number of members of the council who stood in the name of the party when elected;

M

=

the number of positions of responsibility (if any) which are held by such members of the council (treating the holding of a position of responsibility for each term as a separate position of responsibility).

(2) If at the first annual meeting after a local general election the council by resolution passed by a qualified majority so decides, the formula in sub-paragraph (1) has effect as if M were doubled.

(3) Where the figures given by the formula for two or more parties are equal, each of those figures shall be recalculated with S being equal to the number of first preference votes cast for the party at the last local general election.