{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-authorities-members-interests-amendment-regulations-1996/regulation-4",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1996/1215",
  "legislation_title": "The Local Authorities (Members' Interests) (Amendment) Regulations 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-authorities-members-interests-amendment-regulations-1996",
  "path": "regulation/4",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "General notices",
  "text": "(1) In regulation 3—\n(a) in paragraph (1)—\n(i) there is inserted at the beginning ‘Subject to paragraph (5),’; and\n(ii) for ‘councillor’ there is substituted ‘relevant member’;\n(b) for paragraph (2) there is substituted—\n“(2) A person who is a relevant member of a police authority or a National Park authority immediately before 1st July 1996 shall give the general notice not later than one month after the date, being a date on or after that date, on which he first attends a relevant meeting.';”\n(c) in paragraph (3), for the words from ‘who is elected’ to ‘already a councillor’ there is substituted `who becomes a relevant member of an authority other than a police authority or a National Park authority and was not already such a member';\n(d) after paragraph (3) there is inserted—\n“(3A) A person who becomes a relevant member of a police authority or a National Park authority (other than by a re-appointment taking effect immediately after cessation of his membership) on or after 1st July 1996 shall give the relevant notice not later than—\n(a) one month after that date, or\n(b) one month after the date on which he first attends a relevant meeting,\nwhichever is the later.”;\n(e) in paragraph (4), for the words from ‘relevant meeting’ to ‘the councillor is a member, or’ there is substituted ‘in relation to a relevant member, “relevant meeting” means a meeting of the authority of which he is a member, or (except where the authority is a police authority),’; and\n(f) at the end there is added—\n“(5) The Schedule shall apply in relation to a police authority and a National Park authority as if paragraph 3(b) were omitted.”.\n(2) The requirement to give a general notice applicable by virtue of paragraph (1)(b) above shall not apply in relation to a member of a National Park authority who has before 1st July 1996 given a general notice in accordance with paragraph 6(2) of Schedule 5 to the National Park Authorities (Wales) Order 1995.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1995/2803."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1996/1215/regulation/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:44:23.497175+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."
}