{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/levying-bodies-general-regulations-1992/regulation-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/levying-bodies-general-regulations-1992/regulation-1.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1992/2903",
  "legislation_title": "The Levying Bodies (General) Regulations 1992",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/levying-bodies-general-regulations-1992",
  "path": "regulation/1",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Citation, commencement and interpretation",
  "text": "(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Levying Bodies (General) Regulations 1992 and shall come into force on 11th December 1992.\n(2) In these Regulations—\n“the 1988 Act” means the Local Government Finance Act 1988;\n“the 1992 Act” means the Local Government Finance Act 1992;\n“levying body” means a levying body (as defined in section 74(1) of the 1988 Act) to which these Regulations apply by virtue of regulation 2;\n“relevant Act” in relation to a levying body, means the Act or statutory instrument by which a relevant precepting power was conferred on that body;\n“relevant authority”, in relation to a levying body, means a county council or billing authority in respect of which a relevant precepting power would have been exercisable; and\n“relevant precepting power”, in relation to a levying body, means any power under any enactment which that body would have had, apart from section 117 of the 1988 Act, in respect of the financial year beginning in 1990 to issue a precept to, make a levy on, or have its expenses paid by a county council or a billing authority.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1990 c. 14."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
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      "affecting": "uksi/1994/3223",
      "affecting_title": "The Local Government Changes for England (Finance, Miscellaneous Provisions) Regulations 1994"
    },
    {
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      "affecting": "uksi/1994/3223",
      "affecting_title": "The Local Government Changes for England (Finance, Miscellaneous Provisions) Regulations 1994"
    },
    {
      "type": "mod",
      "affecting": "uksi/1994/3223",
      "affecting_title": "The Local Government Changes for England (Finance, Miscellaneous Provisions) Regulations 1994"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1992/2903/regulation/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T14:11:37.029180+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."
}