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Guidance The Fourth Report on the Use of the Petition of Concern Mechanism in the Northern Ireland Assembly This command paper sets out the use of the Petition of Concern Mechanism in the
Northern Ireland Assembly.
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The Petition of Concern (PoC) is a mechanism whereby 30 MLAs can petition the Assembly requiring a matter to be passed on a cross-community rather than a simple majority basis. Under the
Belfast/Good Friday Agreement, it isone of the ‘safeguards’ in Strand One as a mechanism “to ensure key decisions [in the Assembly] are taken on cross-community basis”.
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