{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/internal-drainage-boards-finance-regulations-1992/regulation-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/internal-drainage-boards-finance-regulations-1992/regulation-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1992/3079",
  "legislation_title": "The Internal Drainage Boards (Finance) Regulations 1992",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/internal-drainage-boards-finance-regulations-1992",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "(1) In these Regulations, unless the context otherwise requires—\n“the 1988 Act” means the Local Government Finance Act 1988;\n“the 1992 Act” means the Local Government Finance Act 1992;\n“the 1990 Regulations” means the Internal Drainage Boards (Finance) Regulations 1990;\n“agricultural buildings” has the meaning provided by paragraphs 2 to 8 of Schedule 5 to the 1988 Act;\n“agricultural land” has the meaning provided by paragraphs 2 and 4 to 8 of Schedule 5 to the 1988 Act;\n“board” means an internal drainage board the continued existence of which is confirmed by section 1 of the principal Act or which is constituted or reconstituted pursuant to sections 3 to 5 of the principal Act;\n“district” means an internal drainage district continued in being by virtue of section 1 of the principal Act or which is constituted or reconstituted by section 3 of that Act;\n“land” has the meaning provided by section 72(1) of the principal Act;\n“local billing authority” in relation to a board means a billing authority for any area wholly or partly included in their district;\n“the principal Act” means the Land Drainage Act 1991.\n(2) Any reference in these Regulations to a numbered regulation shall be construed as a reference to the regulation bearing that number in these Regulations.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1992 c. 14."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "S.I. 1990/72, amended by S.I. 1991/523. Certain provisions of both instruments were revoked by the Water Consolidation (Consequential Provisions) Act 1991 (c. 60), Schedule 3, Part II."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "Paragraph 7 of Schedule 5 was amended by the Local Government and Housing Act 1989, Schedule 5, paragraph 37(2)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f4",
      "text": "1991 c. 59."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1992/3079/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T14:10:06.719739+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."
}