{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/charter-trustees-regulations-1996/regulation-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/charter-trustees-regulations-1996/regulation-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1996/263",
  "legislation_title": "The Charter Trustees Regulations 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/charter-trustees-regulations-1996",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "(1) In these Regulations—\n“the Act” means the Local Government Act 1992;\n“the 1972 Act” means the Local Government Act 1972;\n“the establishment date”, in relation to any charter trustees, means the date (being 1st April in any year) which is specified as such in a relevant instrument;\n“existing”, in relation to an area, means that area as it exists immediately before the establishment date;\n“the relevant council” means—\n(a) the council of the district in which is comprised the area for which charter trustees are established; or\n(b) where that area is comprised in a county in which there are no district councils, the council of the county; and\n“relevant instrument” means these Regulations or any other statutory instrument made under the Act by which charter trustees are established.\n(2) Where, pursuant to a provision in a relevant instrument, the charter trustees elect one of their number to be a city mayor or a deputy city mayor or, as the case may be, a town mayor or a deputy town mayor, references in these Regulations to the chairman or the vice-chairman of the charter trustees shall be construed, as the case may be, as references to the city or town mayor or the deputy city or deputy town mayor.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1972 c. 70."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1996/263/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:52:54.955441+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."
}