The Coronavirus Act 2020 (Extension of Provisions Relating to Local Authority Meetings) Order (Northern Ireland) 2022

Statutory Rules of Northern Ireland

2022 No. 108

Local Government

The Coronavirus Act 2020 (Extension of Provisions Relating to Local Authority Meetings) Order (Northern Ireland) 2022

Made

14th March 2022

Approved by resolution of the Assembly on

21st March 2022

The Department for Communities makes the following Order in exercise of the powers conferred by section 90(2) of the Coronavirus Act 2020(1).

Citation

1.  This Order may be cited as the Coronavirus Act 2020 (Extension of Provisions Relating to Local Authority Meetings) Order (Northern Ireland) 2022.

Extension of expiry date

2.  Section 78 of the Coronavirus Act 2020(2) does not expire at the time when it would otherwise expire and expires instead on 24th September 2022.

Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department for Communities on 14 March 2022

(L.S.)

Anthony Carleton

A senior officer of the Department for Communities

EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Order)

Section 78 of the Coronavirus Act 2020 (“The Act”) contains provision relating to Local Authority Meetings.

Section 89(1) provides for the Act to expire at the end of the period of 2 years beginning with the day on which it was passed (25th March 2020). This is subject to limited exceptions. Section 90 allows expiring provisions to be extended for not more than 6 months.

This Order extends the expiry date of section 78 of the Act to 24th September 2022.

(1)

2020 c. 7.

(2)

As amended by 2021 c. 8 (N.I.) (section 1(1)).