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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-authorities-discretionary-expenditure-scotland-regulations-1996/regulation-2",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1996/747",
  "legislation_title": "The Local Authorities (Discretionary Expenditure) (Scotland) Regulations 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-authorities-discretionary-expenditure-scotland-regulations-1996",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Determination of relevant population",
  "text": "For the purposes of section 83(4)(b) of the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973, the relevant population of the area of a local authority in relation to a financial year (“the relevant year”) shall be the resident population of that area in the financial year beginning two years before the relevant year, as estimated by the Registrar General of Births, Deaths and Marriages for Scotland before the beginning of the relevant year.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "A new subsection (4) is substituted in section 83 (with effect from 1st April 1996) by virtue of the Local Government etc. (Scotland) Act 1994, section 164(4) and S.I. 1996/323."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1996/747/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:48:04.178410+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."
}