{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-act-1966/section-40",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-act-1966/section-40.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1966/42",
  "legislation_title": "Local Government Act 1966",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-act-1966",
  "path": "section/40",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "40",
  "heading": "Orders, regulations and rules.",
  "text": "(1) Any power conferred on a Minister by this Act to make an order, . . . shall be exercisable by statutory instrument.\n(2) An order under any provision of this Act, . . . , may be revoked or varied by a subsequent order under that provision.\n(3) Any statutory instrument containing . . . an order under section . . . , . . . , 35 . . . of this Act shall be subject to annulment in pursuance of a resolution of either House of Parliament.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words repealed by Statute Law (Repeals) Act 1989 (c. 43), s. 1(1), Sch. 1 Pt. IV"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Figures repealed by General Rate Act 1967 (c. 9), Sch. 14"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words repealed by Local Government Act 1988 (c. 9, SIF 81:1), s. 41, Sch. 7 Pt. IV"
    },
    {
      "type": "P",
      "label": "P1",
      "text": "S. 40: for previous exercises of this power see Index to Government Orders."
    },
    {
      "type": "P",
      "label": "P2",
      "text": "S. 40(2): s. 35(2) (with s. 40(2) and Sch. 3 Pt. II para. 23) power exercised by S.I.1991/2175."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1966/42/section/40",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:56:19.079890+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."
}