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Local Government (Payments to Councillors) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1999

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2.  In these regulations—

“the Act” means the Local Government Act (Northern Ireland) 1972;

“approved duty” means any of the following duties, that is to say—

(a)

attendance at a meeting of the council, or of any of its committees or sub-committees, or at a meeting of a joint committee or any of its sub-committees, or at a meeting of a group committee established under the provisions of the Local Government (Employment of Group Building Control Staff) Order (Northern Ireland) 1994(1) or the Local Government (Employment of Group Environmental Health Staff) Order (Northern Ireland) 1994(2);

(b)

the doing of anything approved by the council or, as the case may be, by the joint committee, or anything of a class so approved, for the purpose of, or in connection with, the discharge of the functions of the council, or any of its committees or sub-committees, or as the case may be, of the joint committee or any of its sub-committees;

and shall not include a site visit.

“committee member” means a person not being a councillor, appointed to a committee or a sub-committee of a council or to a joint committee or a sub-committee of a joint committee under sections 18 or 19 of the Act;

“councillor” means a member of a council;

“Department” means the Department of the Environment;

“site visit” means a visit made by a councillor in connection with an application for planning permission—

(a)

which has been referred to a district council for consultation under Article 15(a) of the Planning (General Development) Order (Northern Ireland) 1993(3); or

(b)

at the request of the applicant for that planning permission, or his agent, or at the request of an objector to that application.

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