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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-authorities-direct-labour-organisations-competition-wales-regulations-1997/regulation-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-authorities-direct-labour-organisations-competition-wales-regulations-1997/regulation-4.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1997/999",
  "legislation_title": "The Local Authorities (Direct Labour Organisations) (Competition) (Wales) Regulations 1997",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-authorities-direct-labour-organisations-competition-wales-regulations-1997",
  "path": "regulation/4",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Prescribed amount for works contracts",
  "text": "Subject to regulation 8, for the purposes of section 7(1)(a) of the Act (prescribed amounts for certain works contracts) the following amounts are prescribed for works contracts of the following descriptions, namely, for a contract which provides, or provides principally, for the carrying out of—\n(a) general highway works, £25,000;\n(b) the construction or maintenance of a sewer, £50,000;\n(c) works of new construction, £50,000;\n(d) works of maintenance, £10,000.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "For the meaning of “works contract”, see sections 5(1) and 20(1) of the Act. Section 5(1) was amended by the Local Government Act 1985 (c. 51), Schedule 17."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "amended",
      "affecting": "uksi/1997/2756",
      "affecting_title": "The Local Government (Direct Labour Organisations) (Competition) (Amendment) Regulations 1997"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1997/999/regulation/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:10:21.073728+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."
}