{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-authorities-alternative-arrangements-wales-regulations-2007/regulation-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-authorities-alternative-arrangements-wales-regulations-2007/regulation-2.json",
  "legislation": "wsi/2007/397",
  "legislation_title": "The Local Authorities (Alternative Arrangements) (Wales) Regulations 2007",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-authorities-alternative-arrangements-wales-regulations-2007",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "In these Regulations —\n“the 1972 Act” (“Deddf 1972”) means the Local Government Act 1972;\n“the 2000 Act”(“Deddf 2000”) means the Local Government Act 2000;\n“alternative arrangements” (“trefniadau amgen”) means arrangements by a local authority with respect to discharge of their functions which are arrangements in accordance with regulation 3;\n“area committee” (“pwyllgor ardal”) means a committee or sub-committee of a local authority established under regulation 5(2)(b);\n“audit committee” (“pwyllgor archwilio”) means a committee of a local authority established under regulation 5(2)(c);\n“Board” (“Bwrdd”) means the committee of a local authority established under regulation 4;\n“enactment” (“deddfiad”) includes an enactment contained in a local Act or comprised in subordinate legislation;\n“executive” (“gweithrediaeth”) is to be construed in accordance with section 11 of the 2000 Act;\n“licensing committee” (“pwyllgor trwyddedu”) means the committee established under section 6 of the Licensing Act 2003;\n“local authority” (“awdurdod lleol”) means (save where the context otherwise requires) a county council or a county borough council which is operating alternative arrangements;\n“planning committee” (“pwyllgor cynllunio”) means a committee of the authority with delegated power to exercise some or all of those functions in Schedule 1 which is known as the Planning Committee or by such other title as the standing orders of the local authority may provide;\n“political group” (“grŵp gwleidyddol”) means a political group in accordance with regulation 8 of the Local Government (Committees and Political Groups) Regulations 1990;\n“principal scrutiny committee” (“prif bwyllgor craffu”) means a committee or sub-committee of the authority established under regulation 5(1)(a);\n“relevant body” (“corff perthnasol”) for the purposes of regulation 16, means a local authority or a Board;\n“scrutiny committee” (“pwyllgor craffu”) means a committee or sub-committee of the authority established under regulation 5(1)(b).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1972 c. 70."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "S.I. 1990/1553."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2007/397/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T00:01:44.800004+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."
}