{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-act-1929/section-134",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-act-1929/section-134.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/Geo5/19-20/17",
  "legislation_title": "Local Government Act 1929",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-act-1929",
  "path": "section/134",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "134",
  "heading": "Definitions.",
  "text": "In this Act unless the context otherwise requires—\n“Appointed day” means the first day of April, nineteen hundred and thirty . . .\n. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n. . .\n. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n. . .\n. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n. . .\n. . .\n. . .\n“Enactment” includes any public general, local or private Act and any rule, regulation, byelaw, order, or award made under any Act:\n. . .\n“Functions” includes powers and duties:\n. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n“Local Act” includes a Provisional Order confirmed by Act of Parliament:\n. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n“Minister” means the Minister of Health:\n. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n. . .\n. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n. . .\n“Property” and “liabilities” have the same meanings as in the Local Government Act, 1888:\n. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n“Rate” has the same meaning as in the Rating and Valuation Act, 1925:\n. . .\n. . .\n. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n“Road” means a highway repairable by the inhabitants at large, and, save as in this Act otherwise expressly provided, includes any bridge so repairable carrying the road, and “improvement” in relation to a road includes the fixing of a building line or improvement line under any enactment:\n. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n“Sinking fund” includes any fund for the redemption of debt:\n. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n. . .\n. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n. . .\n“Water-rate” means any rate or other charge payable by consumers for the supply of water:\n. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Definitions of “Appropriate percentage” and “Appropriate year” repealed by Local Government Act 1958 (c. 55), Sch. 9 Pt. V"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Definitions in s. 134 repealed (5.11.1993) by 1993 c. 50, s. 1(1), Sch. 1 Pt. X"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Definition repealed by Statute Law (Repeals) Act 1976 (c. 16), s. 1(1), Sch. 1 Pt. VIII"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Definition of “County bridge” repealed by London Government Act 1972 (c. 70), Sch. 30"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Definition of “Gross annual value for income tax purposes” repealed by Finance Act 1963 (c. 25), Sch. 13 Pt. IV"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Definitions repealed by Local Government Act 1958 (c. 55), Sch. 9 Pt. V"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F7",
      "text": "Definition repealed by Finance Act 1963 (c. 25), Sch. 13 Pt. IV"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F8",
      "text": "Definitions repealed by Statute Law (Repeals) Act 1975 (c. 10), Sch. Pt. VIII"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F9",
      "text": "Definition repealed by Statute Law (Repeals) Act 1989 (c. 43), s. 1(1), Sch. 1 Pt. IV"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F10",
      "text": "Definition of “Weighted population” repealed by Local Government Act 1958 (c. 55), Sch. 9 Pt. V"
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "1888 c. 41."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M2",
      "text": "1925 c. 90."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Geo5/19-20/17/section/134",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T11:39:44.855984+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."
}