{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-authorities-discretionary-expenditure-relevant-population-regulations-1990/regulation-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-authorities-discretionary-expenditure-relevant-population-regulations-1990/regulation-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1990/602",
  "legislation_title": "The Local Authorities (Discretionary Expenditure) (Relevant Population) Regulations 1990",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-authorities-discretionary-expenditure-relevant-population-regulations-1990",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Relevant population for purposes of calculating discretionary expenditure limit",
  "text": "For the purposes of section 137(4)(b) of the Local Government Act 1972, the relevant population of the area of an authority specified in column (1) of the Table below shall be determined in relation to that authority by reference to column (2).\nTABLE\n(1)\n(2)\nAn English district council, a London borough council, a Welsh county council, a Welsh district council or the Council of the Isles of Scilly\nThe figure calculated before 12th March 1990 under paragraph 4 of Schedule 12A to the 1988 Act as the relevant population of the area of the authority for the financial year beginning in 1990\nAn English non-metropolitan county council\nThe aggregate of the relevant population figure for the area of each district council within the county, calculated as mentioned above\nThe Common Council\n150,000\nA parish or community council\nThe number of local government electors for the area of the authority on the first day of the financial year in question.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Section 137(4) was amended by Section 36(6) of the Local Government and Housing Act 1989."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "Schedule 12A was inserted by paragraph 74 of Schedule 5 to the 1989 Act."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1990/602/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T15:23:39.328855+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."
}