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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-authorities-discretionary-expenditure-limits-wales-order-2000/note",
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  "legislation": "wsi/2000/990",
  "legislation_title": "The Local Authorities (Discretionary Expenditure Limits) (Wales) Order 2000",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-authorities-discretionary-expenditure-limits-wales-order-2000",
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  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note does not form part of the Order)\nSection 137 of the Local Government Act 1972 enables a local authority to incur expenditure for certain purposes not otherwise authorised provided that such expenditure does not exceed the amount produced by multiplying a specified sum by the relevant population of the authority’s area. In the case of a principal council in Wales, the sum is £3.80 or such other sum as may by order be specified. In the case of a community council, the sum is £3.50 or such other sum as may by order be specified.\nSection 137A of the 1972 Act requires a local authority, which in any financial year provides financial assistance to a voluntary organisation or to a body or fund of a specified kind and the total amount of that assistance equals or exceeds £2000 or such higher sum as may by order be specified (“the relevant minimum”), to require the organisation, body or fund, as a condition of the assistance, to inform the authority of the use to which it has been put.\nThis Order increases to £5.00 the sum specified for the purposes of section 137(4)(a) of the 1972 Act for principal councils and community councils in Wales and to £5000 the relevant minimum for the purposes of section 137A(1) of that Act for local authorities in Wales.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2000/990/note",
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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."
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