{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-authorities-discretionary-expenditure-limits-england-order-2002/article-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-authorities-discretionary-expenditure-limits-england-order-2002/article-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2002/2878",
  "legislation_title": "The Local Authorities (Discretionary Expenditure Limits) (England) Order 2002",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-authorities-discretionary-expenditure-limits-england-order-2002",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Expenditure limits",
  "text": "For the purposes of section 137(4)(a) of the Local Government Act 1972 (power of local authorities to incur expenditure for certain purposes not otherwise authorised), the sum of £5.00 is specified as the sum appropriate to a parish council in England.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "This order applies in relation to parish councils in England only. In relation to Wales see the National Assembly for Wales (Transfer of Functions) Order 1999 (S.I. 1999/672) and the Local Authorities (Discretionary Expenditure Limits) (Wales) Order 2000 (S.I. 2000/990)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2002/2878/article/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T06:39:42.919618+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."
}