{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-act-1972/section-232",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-act-1972/section-232.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1972/70",
  "legislation_title": "Local Government Act 1972",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-act-1972",
  "path": "section/232",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "232",
  "heading": "Public notices.",
  "text": "(1) Save as otherwise expressly provided, a public notice required to be given by a local authority shall be given—\n(a) by posting the notice in some conspicuous place or places within the area of the local authority; ...\n(b) in such other manner, if any, as appears to the local authority to be desirable for giving publicity to the notice.\n; and\n(c) where the local authority is a local authority in Wales, by publishing it electronically.\n(1ZA) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(1A) In subsection (1) above “local authority” includes a corporate joint committee, a joint authority, an economic prosperity board, a combined authority ... , a combined county authority, a fire and rescue authority created by an order under section 4A of the Fire and Rescue Services Act 2004, a police and crime commissioner and the Mayor's Office for Policing and Crime ... ....\n(1B) In the application of subsection (1) to a corporate joint committee, the reference to the corporate joint committee’s area is to be read as a reference to the area specified as the corporate joint committee’s area in regulations under Part 5 of the Local Government and Elections (Wales) Act 2021 establishing the corporate joint committee.\n(2) This section shall apply to a public notice required to be given by the chairman of a parish meeting as it applies to public notices required to be given by a parish council.\n(3) The Welsh Ministers may by regulations make further or different provision about the manner of giving a public notice required to be given by a local authority in Wales.\n(4) Regulations under subsection (3) may also make provision about the manner of giving a public notice required to be given by—\n(a) a National Park authority for a National Park in Wales;\n(b) a fire and rescue authority constituted by a scheme under section 2 of the Fire and Rescue Services Act 2004, or a scheme to which section 4 of that Act applies, for an area in Wales.\n(5) Regulations under subsection (3) may—\n(a) make different provision for different purposes;\n(b) include supplementary, incidental, consequential, transitional, transitory or saving provision (including provision amending, modifying, repealing or revoking any enactment (including this Act and the Local Government and Elections (Wales) Act 2021)).\n(6) A statutory instrument containing regulations under subsection (3) must not be made unless a draft of the instrument has been laid before and approved by resolution of Senedd Cymru.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Word in s. 232(1) omitted (1.5.2021) by virtue of Local Government and Elections (Wales) Act 2021 (asc 1), s. 175(7), Sch. 4 para. 17(2)(a); S.I. 2021/354, reg. 2(c)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "S. 232(1)(c) and word inserted (W.) (1.5.2021) by Local Government and Elections (Wales) Act 2021 (asc 1), s. 175(7), Sch. 4 para. 17(2)(b); S.I. 2021/354, reg. 2(c)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "S. 232(1ZA) omitted (1.5.2021) by virtue of Local Government and Elections (Wales) Act 2021 (asc 1), s. 175(7), Sch. 4 para. 17(3); S.I. 2021/354, reg. 2(c)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "S. 232(1A) inserted by Local Government Act 1985 (c. 51, SIF 81:1), s. 84, Sch. 14 Pt. I para. 28"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words in s. 232(1A) inserted (25.3.2022) by The Corporate Joint Committees (General) (Wales) Regulations 2022 (S.I. 2022/372), regs. 1(2), 30(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Words in s. 232(1A) inserted (17.12.2009) by Local Democracy, Economic Development and Construction Act 2009 (c. 20), ss. 119, 148(6), Sch. 6 para. 31; S.I. 2009/3318, art. 2(c)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F7",
      "text": "Words in s. 232(1A) omitted (26.5.2015) by virtue of Deregulation Act 2015 (c. 20), s. 115(7), Sch. 13 para. 6(7)(r); S.I. 2015/994, art. 6(g)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F8",
      "text": "Words in s. 232(1A) substituted (16.1.2012) by Police Reform and Social Responsibility Act 2011 (c. 13), s. 157(1), Sch. 16 para. 113; S.I. 2011/3019, art. 3, Sch. 1 (with Sch. 2 para. 34)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F9",
      "text": "Words in s. 232(1A) inserted (26.12.2023) by Levelling-up and Regeneration Act 2023 (c. 55), s. 255(2)(c), Sch. 4 para. 44 (with s. 247)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F10",
      "text": "Words in s. 232(1A) inserted (31.1.2017 for specified purposes, 3.4.2017 in so far as not already in force) by Policing and Crime Act 2017 (c. 3), s. 183(1)(5)(e), Sch. 1 para. 30; S.I. 2017/399, reg. 2, Sch. para. 38"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F11",
      "text": "Words in s. 232(1A) repealed (1.4.2002) by 2001 c. 16, s. 137, Sch. 6 para. 31, Sch. 7 Pt. 5(1); S.I. 2002/344, art. 3(j)(m) (with transitional provisions in art. 4)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F12",
      "text": "Words repealed by Education Reform Act 1988 (c. 40, SIF 41:1), ss. 231(7), 235(6), 237(2), Sch. 13 Pt. I"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F13",
      "text": "S. 232(1B) inserted (25.3.2022) by The Corporate Joint Committees (General) (Wales) Regulations 2022 (S.I. 2022/372), regs. 1(2), 30(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F14",
      "text": "S. 232(3)-(6) inserted (21.1.2021) by Local Government and Elections (Wales) Act 2021 (asc 1), s. 175(1)(c), Sch. 4 para. 17(4)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "S. 232 amended by Local Government Act 1985 (c. 51, SIF 81:1), s. 57(7), Sch. 13 para. 12(g)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C2",
      "text": "S. 232 modified (7.8.1991) by S.I.1991/1773, art. 8(2), Sch. 2S. 232: certain functions transferred (7.8.1991) by S.I.1991/1773, art. 8, Sch. 2S. 232 extended (5.7.1994) by 1994 c. 19, ss. 39(2), 66(2)(b), Sch. 13 para. 19(g) (with ss. 54(5)(7), 55(5), Sch. 17 paras. 22(1), 23(2))S. 232 modified (1.4.1995) by S.I. 1995/401, art. 18, Sch. para. 1(e)S. 232 applied (temp. from 4.5.1995 to 31.3.1996) by S.I. 1995/1042, art. 4(1)S. 232: power to make provisions about matters of the kind dealt with in this section conferred (1.9.1997) by 1997 c. 50, s. 44(1), Sch. 4(a)(xiv); S.I. 1997/1930, art. 2(1)(2)(m)S. 232 extended (8.5.2000) by 1999 c. 29, s. 75 (with Sch. 12 para. 9(1)); S.I. 2000/801, art. 2(2)(b), Sch. Pt. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C3",
      "text": "S. 232 applied (with modifications) (22.7.2004) by The Cotswolds Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (Establishment of Conservation Board) Order 2004 (S.I. 2004/1777), art. 21(2)(e)S. 232 applied (with modifications) (22.7.2004) by The Chilterns Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (Establishment of Conservation Board) Order 2004 (S.I. 2004/1778), art. 21(2)(e)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C4",
      "text": "Ss. 224-234 applied (with modifications) (E.) (24.3.2011) by The Hull and Goole Port Health Authority Order 2011 (S.I. 2011/939), arts. 1(1), 7, Sch. 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C5",
      "text": "S. 232 applied (with modifications) (10.7.2011) by Local Government (Wales) Measure 2011 (nawm 4), ss. 119, 178(2) (with s. 120)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C6",
      "text": "S. 232 applied (10.7.2011) by Local Government (Wales) Measure 2011 (nawm 4), ss. 116(4), 178(2) (with s. 117)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C7",
      "text": "Ss. 228-234 applied (with modifications) (22.11.2012) by The Police and Crime Panels (Application of Local Authority Enactments) Regulations 2012 (S.I. 2012/2734), regs. 1(1), 3-6, Sch. Pt. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C8",
      "text": "Ss. 228-234 applied (with modifications) (22.11.2012) by The Police and Crime Panels (Application of Local Authority Enactments) Regulations 2012 (S.I. 2012/2734), regs. 1(1), 3-6, Sch. Pt. 3"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C9",
      "text": "S. 232 excluded (temp.) (W.) (4.12.2020) by The Local Government (Coronavirus) (Postponement of Elections) (Wales) (No. 2) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1399), regs. 2, 9(1)(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C10",
      "text": "Ss. 231-234 extended (19.9.1995) by 1995 c. 25, ss. 63(5), 125(2), Sch. 7 para. 17(2)(d) (with ss. 7(6), 115, 117, Sch. 8 para. 7) (as amended (1.5.2021) by Local Government and Elections (Wales) Act 2021 (asc 1), s. 175(7), Sch. 4 para. 18; S.I. 2021/354, reg. 2(c))"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C11",
      "text": "S. 232(1A) amended by S.I. 1985/1884, art. 10, Sch. 3 para. 1(n)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C12",
      "text": "S. 232(1A) modified by S.I. 1987/2110, art. 2(2), Sch. 1 para. 3(n)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C13",
      "text": "S. 232(1A) modified (5.10.2026) by The Surrey (Structural Changes) (Pensions etc.) Order 2026 (S.I. 2026/1011), art. 1(2), Sch. para. 3(n) (with Sch. para. 10)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1972/70/section/232",
    "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."
}