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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-authorities-contracts-regulations-1997/regulation-2",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1997/2862",
  "legislation_title": "The Local Authorities (Contracts) Regulations 1997",
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  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "In these Regulations—\n“the 1989 Act” means the Local Government and Housing Act 1989;\n“the auditor”, in relation to a local authority, means the auditor appointed under section 13 of the Local Government Finance Act 1982 to audit the accounts of the authority in accordance with Part III of that Act; and\n“certificate” means a certificate issued by a local authority in satisfying the certification requirements in relation to a contract.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1989 c. 42."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1982 c. 32."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "wsi/2013/1466",
      "affecting_title": "The Public Audit (Wales) Act 2013 (Commencement, Consequential Amendments, Transitional and Saving Provisions) (Wales) Order 2013"
    },
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "wsi/2005/761",
      "affecting_title": "The Public Audit (Wales) Act 2004 (Consequential Amendments) (Wales) Regulations 2005"
    }
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  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1997/2862/regulation/2",
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  },
  "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."
}