{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/accounts-commission-scotland-regulations-1996/regulation-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/accounts-commission-scotland-regulations-1996/regulation-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1996/681",
  "legislation_title": "The Accounts Commission (Scotland) Regulations 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/accounts-commission-scotland-regulations-1996",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "In these Regulations—\n“the 1973 Act” means the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973;\n“the 1996 Order” means the Local Government (Transitional Financial Provisions) (Scotland) Order 1996;\n“the Commission” means the Accounts Commission for Scotland established under section 97(1) of the 1973 Act;\n“net expenses of the Commission” means the expenses of the Commission, other than—\n(a) such expenses as are met by grants under section 98(1)(a) of the 1973 Act; and\n(b) such expenses as fall to be met in accordance with—\n(i) the Commissioner for Local Administration in Scotland (Expenses) Regulations 1989; or\n(ii) the National Health Service (Expenses of Audit) (Scotland) Regulations 1995;\n“specified body” means—\n(a) a council constituted under section 2 of the Local Government etc. (Scotland) Act 1994; and\n(b) a body referred to in paragraph (a) or (b) of section 106(1) of the 1973 Act.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1996/682."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "Section 97(1) was amended by the National Health Service and Community Care Act 1990, Schedule 7, paragraph 3(2)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "S.I. 1989/98."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f4",
      "text": "S.I. 1995/698."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f5",
      "text": "1994 c. 39."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1996/681/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:48:50.104811+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}