{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/equality-act-2010/section-59",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/equality-act-2010/section-59.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2010/15",
  "legislation_title": "Equality Act 2010",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/equality-act-2010",
  "path": "section/59",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "59",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "(1) This section applies for the purposes of section 58.\n(2) “Local authority” means—\n(a) a county council in England;\n(b) a district council in England;\n(c) the Greater London Authority;\n(d) a London borough council;\n(e) the Common Council of the City of London;\n(f) the Council of the Isles of Scilly;\n(g) a parish council in England;\n(h) a county council in Wales;\n(i) a community council in Wales;\n(j) a county borough council in Wales;\n(ja) a corporate joint committee established by regulations made under Part 5 of the Local Government and Elections (Wales) Act 2021;\n(k) a council constituted under section 2 of the Local Government etc. (Scotland) Act 1994;\n(l) a community council in Scotland.\n(3) A Minister of the Crown may by order amend subsection (2) so as to add, vary or omit a reference to a body which exercises functions that have been conferred on a local authority within paragraph (a) to (l).\n(4) A reference to the carrying-out of official business by a person who is a member of a local authority is a reference to the doing of anything by the person—\n(a) as a member of the authority,\n(b) as a member of a body to which the person is appointed by, or appointed following nomination by, the authority or a group of bodies including the authority, or\n(c) as a member of any other public body.\n(5) “Member”, in relation to the Greater London Authority, means—\n(a) the Mayor of London;\n(b) a member of the London Assembly.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 59(2)(ja) inserted (E.W.) (1.4.2021) by The Corporate Joint Committees (General) (Wales) Regulations 2021 (S.I. 2021/327), reg. 1(2), Sch. 3 para. 2"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2010/15/section/59",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T17:03:45.890819+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."
  }
}