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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-authorities-contracts-regulations-1997/regulation-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-authorities-contracts-regulations-1997/regulation-4.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1997/2862",
  "legislation_title": "The Local Authorities (Contracts) Regulations 1997",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-authorities-contracts-regulations-1997",
  "path": "regulation/4",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Copies of certificates—authorities with a monitoring officer",
  "text": "A local authority which is under the duty imposed by section 5(1) of the 1989 Act to designate one of its officers as the monitoring officer shall ensure that a copy of every certificate issued by it is given to the officer designated by it under that section and to the auditor.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "A National Park authority is required to designate a monitoring officer in accordance with section 5(1) of that Act by virtue of section 63(5) of, and paragraph 13(7) of Schedule 7 to, the Environment Act 1995 (c. 25)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1997/2862/regulation/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T11:41:46.602181+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."
}