Local Government Act 2001

128A

Interpretation (Chapter 2)

128A. In this Chapter

"chief officer", in relation to a Committee, means the person designated as such by the chief executive of the local authority concerned under section 128E(1);

"Committee" means a Local Community Development Committee;

"community elements of the Plan" means those parts of a local economic and community plan relating to the local and community development of the functional area of the Committee pursuant to section 66B;

"economic elements of the Plan" means those parts of a local economic and community plan relating to the promotion of economic development of the administrative area of the local authority pursuant to section 66B;

"functional area of a Committee", in relation to a Committee, means the area to which the Committee relates, being the same area as the administrative area of the local authority concerned or such part of that area as may be determined by a resolution of the local authority under section 49A;

"local and community development programme" means any action, intervention, programme, scheme or any other support, financial or otherwise, which is concerned with promoting the interests of local communities and includes matters to which section 66(3) relates;

"Local Community Development Committee" means the committee established pursuant to section 49A;

"Plan" means the local economic and community plan to which section 66B relates;

"publicly funded body" means a body whose funds, directly or indirectly and in whole or in part, come out of moneys provided by the Oireachtas for the purpose of performing its functions;

"representatives of local community interests", in relation to the functional area of a Committee, means persons who are representative of community interests that are concerned with promoting the development of aspects of those interests within that area and such representatives may include representatives of non-governmental organisations, development agencies, community-based groups, recognised associations for the purposes of section 128, youth organisations, cultural bodies, sporting bodies and social movements and networks.]

Annotations

Amendments:

F156

Inserted (1.06.2014) by Local Government Reform Act 2014 (1/2014), s. 36(2), S.I. No. 214 of 2014.