{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/cumbria-structural-changes-order-2022/article-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/cumbria-structural-changes-order-2022/article-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2022/331",
  "legislation_title": "The Cumbria (Structural Changes) Order 2022",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/cumbria-structural-changes-order-2022",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "In this Order—\n“the 1972 Act” means the Local Government Act 1972;\n“the 1989 Act” means the Local Government and Housing Act 1989;\n“the 2000 Act” means the Local Government Act 2000;\n“the 2007 Act” means the Local Government and Public Involvement in Health Act 2007;\n“the 2011 Act” means the Localism Act 2011;\n“2022 election” means an election required by article 21(1)(a) to be held in 2022;\n“the 2022 election day” means the ordinary day of election of councillors in 2022;\n“the article 22 functions” means the functions referred to in article 22;\n“the county council” means the council of the county of Cumbria;\n“Cumberland Council” means the district council to be established by article 3(2);\n“the Cumberland councils” means Allerdale Borough Council, Carlisle City Council and Copeland Borough Council;\n“the Cumberland districts” means the districts of Allerdale, Carlisle and Copeland;\n“the Cumberland Joint Committee” is the committee to be established by article 23(1)(a);\n“the Implementation Team” means the team required to be formed under article 26(1);\n“ordinary day of election of councillors” has the meaning given by section 37 of the Representation of the People Act 1983;\n“the proper officer”, in relation to any purpose and any council, means the officer appointed for that purpose by that council;\n“shadow authority” means an authority (not being a local authority) which will become a local authority on 1st April 2023;\n“shadow executive” has the meaning given in article 7(1);\n“the shadow period” means the period beginning with the fourth day after the 2022 election day and ending immediately before 1st April 2023;\n“Westmorland and Furness Council” means the district council to be established by article 4(2);\n“the Westmorland and Furness councils” means Barrow-in-Furness Borough Council, Eden District Council and South Lakeland District Council;\n“the Westmorland and Furness districts” means the districts of Barrow-in-Furness, Eden and South Lakeland;\n“the Westmorland and Furness Joint Committee” is the committee to be established by article 23(1)(b).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1972 c.70."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1989 c. 42."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "2000 c. 22. Parts 2 and 3 of that Act were amended by Part 3 of the Local Government and Public Involvement in Health Act 2007 (c. 28). Part 1A and Schedule A1 were inserted by Schedule 2 to the Localism Act 2011 (c.20)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f4",
      "text": "2011 c. 20."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f5",
      "text": "See section 37 of the Representation of the People Act 1983 (c.2)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f6",
      "text": "1983 c. 2."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2022/331/article/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T22:02:12.340007+00:00",
    "licence": "OGL-UK-3.0",
    "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."
  }
}