{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-authorities-elected-mayor-and-mayors-assistant-england-regulations-2002/regulation-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-authorities-elected-mayor-and-mayors-assistant-england-regulations-2002/regulation-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2002/975",
  "legislation_title": "The Local Authorities (Elected Mayor and Mayor’s Assistant) (England) Regulations 2002",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-authorities-elected-mayor-and-mayors-assistant-england-regulations-2002",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Elected mayor to be treated as councillor",
  "text": "An elected mayor of a local authority is to be treated as a councillor of the local authority for the purposes of the following enactments—\n(a) subsections (2) and (3) of section 2 of the Coroners Act 1988 (qualification for appointment as coroner);\n(b) subsections (1), (3), (4) and (5) of section 18 of the 1989 Act (schemes for basic, attendance and special responsibility allowances for local authority members);\n(c) paragraph 2(6) of Schedule 7 to the Environment Act 1995 (local authority members of National Park Authorities);\n(d) regulation 2 of the Local Authorities (Members' Interests) Regulations 1992 (interpretation); and\n(e) paragraph 2 of Schedule 6 to the Motor Vehicles (Driving Licences) Regulations 1999 (evidence of identity of test candidates).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1988 c. 13. Section 2 was amended by S.I. 1996/655 and 1998/465. There are other amendments to section 2 that are not relevant to these Regulations."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "Section 18 was amended by section 99 of the Local Government Act 2000. There are other amendments to section 18 that are not relevant to these Regulations."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "1995 c. 25."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f4",
      "text": "S.I. 1992/618; a relevant amending instrument is S.I. 1996/1215."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f5",
      "text": "S.I. 1999/2864."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2002/975/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T07:00:57.627340+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."
}