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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-authority-overview-and-scrutiny-committees-health-scrutiny-functions-regulations-2002/regulation-8",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2002/3048",
  "legislation_title": "The Local Authority (Overview and Scrutiny Committees Health Scrutiny Functions) Regulations 2002",
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  "path": "regulation/8",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": "Delegated scrutiny",
  "text": "(1) A local authority may arrange for relevant functions in relation to that authority to be exercisable by an overview and scrutiny committee of another local authority in the circumstances set out in paragraph (2).\n(2) The circumstances referred to paragraph (1) above are where a local authority considers that another local authority would be better placed to undertake a relevant function and the latter agrees to exercise that function.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2002/3048/regulation/8",
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  },
  "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."
}