{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-authorities-capital-finance-regulations-1997/regulation-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-authorities-capital-finance-regulations-1997/regulation-1.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1997/319",
  "legislation_title": "The Local Authorities (Capital Finance) Regulations 1997",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-authorities-capital-finance-regulations-1997",
  "path": "regulation/1",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Citation, commencement and interpretation",
  "text": "(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Local Authorities (Capital Finance) Regulations 1997 and shall come into force—\n(a) for the purposes of regulations 120, 121 and 162(a), on 30th March 1997; and\n(b) for all other purposes, on 1st April 1997.\n(2) In these Regulations except where the context otherwise requires—\n“the Act” means the Local Government and Housing Act 1989, and any reference in these Regulations to a section is a reference to a section of the Act; and\n“the 1990 Regulations” means the Local Authorities (Capital Finance) Regulations 1990.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": "prospective",
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 1 in force at 1.4.1997, see reg. 1(1)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1990/432; amended by S.I. 1990/1273, S.I. 1991/500, S.I. 1992/502, S.I. 1992/738, S.I. 1992/1618, S.I. 1992/2819, S.I. 1992/3257, S.I. 1993/520, S.I. 1993/2014, S.I. 1993/3054, S.I. 1994/553, S.I. 1995/850, S.I. 1995/1526, S.I. 1995/1982, S.I. 1996/568, S.I. 1996/2121 and S.I. 1996/2539."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "coming into force",
      "affecting": "uksi/1997/319",
      "affecting_title": "The Local Authorities (Capital Finance) Regulations 1997"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1997/319/regulation/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:25:41.411541+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."
}