{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-authorities-charges-for-overseas-assistance-and-public-path-orders-regulations-1996/regulation-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-authorities-charges-for-overseas-assistance-and-public-path-orders-regulations-1996/regulation-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1996/1978",
  "legislation_title": "The Local Authorities (Charges for Overseas Assistance and Public Path Orders) Regulations 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-authorities-charges-for-overseas-assistance-and-public-path-orders-regulations-1996",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Overseas assistance",
  "text": "(1) A relevant authority may impose a charge for providing advice or assistance in accordance with section 1 of the Local Government (Overseas Assistance) Act 1993.\n(2) The amount of a charge under this regulation is to be at the discretion of the relevant authority and, in determining that amount, the authority shall have regard to its costs in providing the advice or assistance in question.\n(3) In this regulation, “relevant authority” means an authority (other than a joint committee) which is mentioned in any of the following provisions of section 152 of the Local Government and Housing Act 1989—\n(a) paragraphs (a) to (f), (h), (i), (ja), and (k) to (m) of subsection (2), and\n(b) paragraphs (a) and (e) of subsection (3).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1993 c. 25; amended by paragraph 103 of Schedule 16 to the Local Government (Wales) Act 1994 (c. 19); Part I of Schedule 9 to the Police and Magistrates’ Courts Act 1994 (c. 29); paragraph 182 of Schedule 13 to the Local Government etc. (Scotland) Act 1994 (c. 39) and paragraph 36 of Schedule 10 to the Environment Act 1995 (c. 25)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "Section 152 is amended by paragraph 41 of Schedule 4, and Part I of Schedule 9, to the Police and Magistrates’ Courts Act 1994; paragraph 161(11) of Schedule 13 to the Local Government etc. (Scotland) Act 1994; paragraph 11 of Schedule 8 to the Environment Act 1995 (which inserts paragraph (ja)) and paragraph 31(4) of Schedule 10 to that Act (which inserts paragraph (m)). In relation to Wales the references to county and district councils in subsection (2) are, by virtue of section 17(5) of the Local Government (Wales) Act 1994, to be construed as references to the councils of new principal areas."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1996/1978/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:37:50.319009+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."
}