{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-act-1972/section-197",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-act-1972/section-197.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1972/70",
  "legislation_title": "Local Government Act 1972",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-act-1972",
  "path": "section/197",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "197",
  "heading": "Fire services.",
  "text": "(1) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(4) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(5) In section 10 of the Fire Services Act 1947, as amended by Schedule 8 to the Local Government Act 1958 (power to make schemes in advance of alterations of local government areas) for the words from the beginning to “combined authorities” there shall be substituted the words “ If an order is made under Part IV of the Local Government Act 1972 constituting any area as a new county or altering the area of a county ”. . .",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 197(1)-(3) repealed (22.7.2004) by Statute Law (Repeals) Act 2004 (c. 14), s. 1(1), {Sch. 1 Pt. 10 Group 1}"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "S. 197(4) repealed by Local Government Finance Act 1982 (c. 32, SIF 81:1), s. 38, Sch. 6 Pt. IV"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in s. 197(5) repealed (31.10.1992) by LOcal Government Act 1992 (c. 19), s. 29(2), Sch. 4 Pt.II; S.I. 1992/2371, art.2"
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "1974 c. 41."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M2",
      "text": "1958 c. 55."
    },
    {
      "type": "X",
      "label": "X1",
      "text": "The text of s. 197(1)(5) is in the form in which it was originally enacted: it was not reproduced in Statutes in Force and does not reflect any amendments or repeals which may have been made prior to 1.2.1991."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1972/70/section/197",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:48:26.887741+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."
}