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Local Government Act 2002

Planning, decision-making, and accountability - Borrowing and security - Protected transactions

118: Certificate of compliance

You could also call this:

“When councils do important business, they get a special paper to show they followed the rules”

When a local authority does a protected transaction, the chief executive can sign a certificate. This certificate says that the local authority followed all the rules in the Local Government Act 2002 for that transaction. If someone signs this certificate, or even if it looks like they signed it, it counts as definite proof that the local authority did everything right. You don’t need any other evidence. This certificate is enough to show that the local authority followed all the rules for the protected transaction.

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Part 6 Planning, decision-making, and accountability
Borrowing and security: Protected transactions

118Certificate of compliance

  1. A certificate signed, or purporting to be signed, by the chief executive of a local authority to the effect that the local authority has complied with this Act in connection with a protected transaction is conclusive proof for all purposes that the local authority has so complied.

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