{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-authority-social-services-act-1970/section-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-authority-social-services-act-1970/section-1.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1970/42",
  "legislation_title": "Local Authority Social Services Act 1970",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-authority-social-services-act-1970",
  "path": "section/1",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Local authorities.",
  "text": "The local authorities for the purposes of this Act shall be the councils of non-metropolitan counties and metropolitan districts in England, the councils of London boroughs and the Common Council of the City of London ....",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 1 substituted (6.4.2016) by The Social Services and Well-being (Wales) Act 2014 (Consequential Amendments) Regulations 2016 (S.I. 2016/413), regs. 2(1), 20(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in s. 1 omitted (6.4.2016) by virtue of The Social Services and Well-being (Wales) Act 2014 (Consequential Amendments) Regulations 2016 (S.I. 2016/413), regs. 2(1), 20(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "S. 1 amended by Local Government Act 1972 (c. 70), s. 195(3)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1970/42/section/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:50:58.846775+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."
}