{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-authorities-referendums-petitions-and-directions-england-regulations-2000/regulation-3",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2000/2852",
  "legislation_title": "The Local Authorities (Referendums) (Petitions and Directions) (England) Regulations 2000",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-authorities-referendums-petitions-and-directions-england-regulations-2000",
  "path": "regulation/3",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Interpretation of Part II",
  "text": "In this Part—\n“amalgamated petition” means the single petition resulting from an amalgamation of petitions in accordance with paragraph (1) or (2) of regulation 8;\n“constituent petitions” means petitions that have been amalgamated;\n“constitutional change” means a proposal that a local authority should operate executive arrangements—\n(a) under which the executive—\n(i) takes the form specified in subsection (2) or (4) of section 11 (local authority executives); or\n(ii) otherwise includes an elected mayor, or\n(b) in a form that, apart from an elected mayor, is not specified in the proposal;\n“moratorium period”, in relation to a local authority’s area and a petition, means the period of 48 months commencing with the day on which a referendum was last held under Part II of the Act in relation to that area;\n“notice period”, in relation to a petition, means the period of one month beginning with the petition date;\n“petition”, unless the context otherwise requires, includes an amalgamated petition;\n“petition date”—\n(a) in relation to a petition submitted prior to the publication of the verification number in accordance with regulation 4(1) means the date on which that verification number is published;\n(b) subject to paragraph (d), in relation to constituent petitions amalgamated in accordance with regulation 8(2), means the latest date on which any of petitions amalgamated was received by the authority;\n(c) subject to paragraph (d), in relation to any other petition, means the date on which it was received by the authority;\n(d) in relation to a petition received within the period of six months beginning with the date that is twelve months before the earliest date on which a second (or subsequent) referendum may lawfully be held in the area of the authority to whom the petition is addressed, means the date on which that period of six months ends;\n“petition organiser”—\n(a) in relation to constituent petitions amalgamated in accordance with paragraph (1) of regulation 8, means the person determined in accordance with paragraph (5) of regulation 10;\n(b) in any other case, has the meaning given by paragraph (4) of regulation 10;\n“post-announcement petition” means a petition received in the circumstances mentioned in regulation 7(1);\n“proper officer” has the meaning given by section 270(3) of the Local Government Act 1972;\n“valid petition” has the meaning given by regulation 9(1);\n“verification number”, in relation to a petition, means the number to be used for verification purposes by virtue of paragraph (4), (5), (6) or (7) of regulation 4, as the case may be; and\n“verification purposes” means the purposes of establishing the matters mentioned in regulations 8(3) and 9(1)(a).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1972 c. 70."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "subst",
      "affecting": "uksi/2001/760",
      "affecting_title": "The Local Authorities (Referendums) (Petitions and Directions) (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2001"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2000/2852/regulation/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T08:12:04.188975+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."
}