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LOCAL GOVERNMENT ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1972 - SECT 18

18.(1) A council may appoint a committee for any such general or special
purpose as in the opinion of the council would be better regulated and managed
by means of a committee, and may delegate to a committee so appointed, with or
without restrictions or conditions, as the council thinks fit, any functions
exercisable by the council with respect to either the whole or a part of the
district of the council, except the power of making a rate, or of borrowing
money or of acquiring, holding or disposing of land, and any
transferred provision regulating the exercise of a function by a council shall
also apply to regulate the exercise of that function by a committee.

(2) The number of members of a committee appointed under this section, their
term of office, and the area, if any, with respect to which the committee is
to exercise its functions shall be fixed by the council.

(3) A committee appointed under this section may include persons who are not
councillors, but at least two-thirds of the members of every committee shall
be councillors.

(4) A committee appointed under this section may, subject to any directions of
the council, appoint a sub-committee for the exercise of any function which in
the opinion of the council or the committee would be better exercised by a
sub-committee, and may if so authorised by the council delegate to such
sub-committee with or without restrictions or conditions as the committee
think fit any functions of the council delegated to the committee under
subsection (1).

(5) A sub-committee appointed under subsection (4) may include persons who are
not councillors, but the majority of the members of every sub-committee shall
be councillors.

(6) Every member of a committee or sub-committee appointed under this section
who was a councillor at the time of his appointment shall, upon ceasing to be
a councillor, cease to be a member of the committee or sub-committee.

(7) A council which appoints a committee, or a committee which appoints a
sub-committee, may revoke any appointment made under this section and, in the
case of a council, may revoke or vary anything delegated, or any restriction
or condition imposed, under subsection (1) or anything fixed under subsection
(2).

(8) A member of a committee or sub-committee who is not a councillor shall
have the same exemption from personal liability as if he were a councillor.

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