{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-governance-scotland-act-2004-severance-payments-regulations-2006/regulation-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-governance-scotland-act-2004-severance-payments-regulations-2006/regulation-2.json",
  "legislation": "ssi/2006/471",
  "legislation_title": "The Local Governance (Scotland) Act 2004 (Severance Payments) Regulations 2006",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-governance-scotland-act-2004-severance-payments-regulations-2006",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "In these Regulations–\n“the 1973 Act” means the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973;\n“the 1994 Act” means the Local Government etc. (Scotland) Act 1994;\n“the 2004 Act” means the Local Governance (Scotland) Act 2004;\n“by election” means an election to fill a casual vacancy in the office of councillor in accordance with section 37 of the 1973 Act (filling of casual vacancies);\n“connected person” means, in relation to a member of a local authority, their spouse, civil partner, a person the member has been living with as if they were man and wife (as the case may be), a person the member has been living with as if they were civil partners, or a child or parent of the member who is wholly or mainly dependent on the member;\n“local authority” means a council constituted under section 2 of the 1994 Act (constitution of councils); and\n“ordinary election” means an ordinary election of councillors for local government areas in Scotland that is held after the date on which section 1 of the 2004 Act (electoral wards) comes into force.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1973, c. 65."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1994, c. 39."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "Section 37 was amended by 2002 asp 1, sections 3 and 4."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f4",
      "text": "Ordinary elections are held in accordance with section 5 of the 1994 Act, as amended by the Scottish Local Government (Elections) Act 2002 (asp 1) and section 5(2) of the 2004 Act."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2006/471/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T22:17:52.180957+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."
}