{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/environmental-permitting-england-and-wales-regulations-2016/regulation-6",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/environmental-permitting-england-and-wales-regulations-2016/regulation-6.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2016/1154",
  "legislation_title": "The Environmental Permitting (England and Wales) Regulations 2016",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/environmental-permitting-england-and-wales-regulations-2016",
  "path": "regulation/6",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "6",
  "heading": "Interpretation: local authority",
  "text": "(1) In these Regulations, except in Schedule 1A, “local authority” means—\n(a) in England outside Greater London—\n(i) a district council,\n(ii) where there is a county council but no district council, the county council, or\n(iii) the Council of the Isles of Scilly;\n(b) in Greater London—\n(i) the council of a London borough,\n(ii) the Common Council of the City of London,\n(iii) the Sub-Treasurer of the Inner Temple, or\n(iv) the Under-Treasurer of the Middle Temple;\n(c) in Wales—\n(i) a county council, or\n(ii) a county borough council.\n(2) Where a port health authority has been constituted for a port health district by an order under section 2 of the Public Health (Control of Disease) Act 1984 that authority is the local authority for the area covered by that district in relation to a Part B installation, a small waste incineration plant or a solvent emission activity.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in reg. 6(1) inserted (31.12.2020) by The Environmental Permitting (England and Wales) (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/39), regs. 1, 2(4); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "1984 c. 22."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2016/1154/regulation/6",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-05T03:41:31.926820+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."
}