{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/english-devolution-and-community-empowerment-act-2026/schedule-20/paragraph-12",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/english-devolution-and-community-empowerment-act-2026/schedule-20/paragraph-12.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2026/23",
  "legislation_title": "English Devolution and Community Empowerment Act 2026",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/english-devolution-and-community-empowerment-act-2026",
  "path": "schedule/20/paragraph/12",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "12",
  "heading": "Miscellaneous provisions",
  "text": "After section 217 insert—\n“MDCs outside London\nPolitical activities of officers and staff etc\n217A (1) Section 1 of the LGHA 1989 (disqualification and political restriction of certain officers and staff), and sections 2 and 3A of that Act so far as they have effect for the purposes of section 1, apply in relation to an MDC outside London as if it were a local authority.\n(2) Section 5 of the LGHA 1989 (designation and reports of monitoring officer) applies in relation to a combined authority or CCA as if an MDC for an area in the area of the combined authority or CCA were a committee of the combined authority or CCA.\n(3) In this section—\n“LGHA 1989” means the Local Government and Housing Act 1989;\n“MDC outside London” means an MDC for an area in the area of a combined authority or CCA.”",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 20 para. 12 in force at Royal Assent, see s. 108(1)(3)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2026/23/schedule/20/paragraph/12",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-05T03:43:57.197615+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."
}