
2023 No. 78
Local Government
The Local Government (Performance Indicators and Standards) (Amendment) Order (Northern Ireland) 2023
Made 10th May 2023
Coming into operation 1st June 2023

The Department for Communities makes the following Order in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 89(1) of the Local Government Act (Northern Ireland) 2014 and now vested in it.

In accordance with sections 89(2) and 127 of that Act, the Department has consulted councils and such associations or bodies representative of councils, such associations or bodies representative of officers of councils and such other persons or bodies as appear to the Department to be appropriate.
Citation and commencement
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This Order shall be cited as the Local Government (Performance Indicators and Standards) (Amendment) Order (Northern Ireland) 2023 and shall come into operation on 1st June 2023.
Amendment of the Local Government (Performance Indicators and Standards) Order (Northern Ireland) 2015
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(1) The Local Government (Performance Indicators and Standards) Order (Northern Ireland) 2015 shall be amended as follows:
(2) In Schedule 1 (economic development indicators), for the table, substitute the following table—“

Council Indicator reference number Indicator
All councils ED 1 The number of jobs promoted through business start-up activity
”.
(3) In Schedule 2 (economic development standards), for the table, substitute the following table—“

Council Standard reference number Standard
 EDS 1 To promote in each financial year the following number of jobs through business start-up activity
Antrim and Newtownabbey  80
Ards and North Down  123
Armagh, Banbridge and Craigavon  182
Belfast  325
Causeway Coast and Glens  128
Derry and Strabane  140
Fermanagh and Omagh  170
Lisburn and Castlereagh  116
Mid and East Antrim  111
Mid Ulster  153
Newry, Mourne and Down  173
”.
Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department for Communities on 10th May 2023.
Anthony Carleton
A senior officer of the Department for Communities
