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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-audit-appointing-person-regulations-2015/regulation-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-audit-appointing-person-regulations-2015/regulation-3.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2015/192",
  "legislation_title": "The Local Audit (Appointing Person) Regulations 2015",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-audit-appointing-person-regulations-2015",
  "path": "regulation/3",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Specification of a person to appoint local auditors",
  "text": "(1) The Secretary of State may, in accordance with regulation 4, specify a person (an “appointing person”) to appoint a local auditor to audit the accounts of an opted in authority.\n(2) The Secretary of State may specify different persons in relation to different classes of principal authorities.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 3 in force at 10.2.2015 in accordance with, see reg. 1(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2015/192/regulation/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:48:15.985702+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."
}