{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-authorities-precepts-wales-regulations-1995/regulation-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-authorities-precepts-wales-regulations-1995/regulation-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1995/2562",
  "legislation_title": "The Local Authorities (Precepts) (Wales) Regulations 1995",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-authorities-precepts-wales-regulations-1995",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "(1) In these Regulations—\n“the 1992 Act” means the Local Government Finance Act 1992;\n“the 1992 Regulations” means the Local Authorities (Funds) (Wales) Regulations 1992;\n“relevant local precepting authority”, in relation to a billing authority, means any community council having power to issue a precept to that billing authority;\n“relevant major precepting authority”, in relation to a billing authority, means the police authority established under section 3 of the Police Act 1964, having power to issue a precept to that billing authority;\n“relevant precepting authority”, in relation to a billing authority, means the relevant major precepting authority and each relevant local precepting authority;\n“schedule of instalments” means:\n(a) a schedule determined, or to be determined, by a billing authority in accordance with regulation 4 and, where it applies, regulation 6, with respect to the times for and the number and amounts of payments from its council fund in respect of its liabilities; and\n(b) in relation to a financial year for which such a schedule has been so determined, means the schedule which currently has effect for that financial year; and\n“working day” means any day other than a Saturday, Sunday, or bank holiday.\n(2) Any reference in these Regulations (however framed) to liability in relation to a billing authority is a reference to the liability of a billing authority to pay anything from its council fund in respect of any precept issued by a relevant precepting authority under Chapter IV of Part I of the 1992 Act, after taking into account any amount credited against that liability by that relevant precepting authority under section 42(4) of that Act.\n(3) References in these Regulations to a working day in one month and a working day in another month shall be treated (in relation to each other) as the same working day of a different month if, and only if, both such working days can be identified\n(a) by the same name of a day in a week ( whether Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday or Friday), and also\n(b) by reference to the same position in a month relative to other days of that name (whether the first, second, third or fourth day of that name in a month).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1992 c. 14."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "S.I. 1992/2929, amended by S.I. 1994/2964."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "1964 c. 48; section 3 was substituted by section 2 of the Police and Magistrates' Courts Act 1994 c. 29."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1995/2562/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T13:00:36.395067+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."
}