{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-authorities-capital-finance-regulations-1997/regulation-29",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-authorities-capital-finance-regulations-1997/regulation-29.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/29",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "29",
  "heading": "Lease of land for term not exceeding three years",
  "text": "The initial cost of a lease (“the new lease”) of land shall be nil where—\n(a) the term of the new lease does not exceed three years;\n(b) the authority have not, at any time within the period of five years ending on the date on which they become the lessees, had a freehold interest in any part of the land, or an earlier leasehold interest in any part of the land for a term which, added to the term of the new lease, produces a combined term of more than three years; and\n(c) no other local authority have, within the same period, had a leasehold interest in any part of the land for a term which, added to the term of the new lease, produces a combined term of more than three years.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": "prospective",
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 29 in force at 1.4.1997, see reg. 1(1)(b)"
    }
  ],
  "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/29",
    "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."
}