{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-act-1974/section-23A",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-act-1974/section-23A.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1974/7",
  "legislation_title": "Local Government Act 1974",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-act-1974",
  "path": "section/23A",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "23A",
  "heading": "Annual reports for representatives etc.",
  "text": "(1) For the financial year ending in 1990 and for each subsequent financial year, the Commission shall prepare a general report on the discharge of their functions (other than those under Part 3A of this Act) (an “annual report”) and shall submit it—\n(a) to such persons as appear to the Commission to represent authorities ... to which this Part of this Act applies, and\n(b) in the case of such authorities as are not so represented, to those authorities.\n(2) The annual report shall be submitted as soon as may be after the Commission have received the reports for the year from Local Commissioners under section 23(11) above, and the Commission shall submit copies of those reports, together with their annual report .\n(3) The Commission shall arrange for the publication of the annual report and of the reports of which copies are submitted by them under subsection (2) above.\n(3A) The Commission must lay a copy of the annual report before Parliament.\n(4) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(5) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(6) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 23A inserted by Local Government and Housing Act 1989 (c. 42, SIF 81:1), s. 25(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in s. 23A(1) substituted (1.4.2006) by Public Services Ombudsman (Wales) Act 2005 (c. 10), s. 40, Sch. 6 para. 9(2)(a) (with s. 38); S.I. 2005/2800, art. 5(1)(3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in s. 23A(1) inserted (1.10.2010) by Health Act 2009 (c. 21), s. 40(1), Sch. 5 para. 6; S.I. 2010/1863, art. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in s. 23A(1) inserted (1.4.2008 in relation to any report submitted on or after 1.4.2008) by Local Government and Public Involvement in Health Act 2007 (c. 28), ss. 170(2), 245(5); S.I. 2008/917, art. 2(1)(h)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words in s. 23A(1)(a) repealed (1.4.2006) by Public Services Ombudsman (Wales) Act 2005 (c. 10), s. 40, Sch. 6 para. 9(2)(b), Sch. 7 (with s. 38); S.I. 2005/2800, art. 5(1)(3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Words in s. 23A(2) substituted (1.4.2008 in relation to any report submitted on or after 1.4.2008) by Local Government and Public Involvement in Health Act 2007 (c. 28), ss. 170(3)(a), 245(5); S.I. 2008/917, art. 2(1)(h)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F7",
      "text": "Words in s. 23A(2) substituted (1.4.2006) by Public Services Ombudsman (Wales) Act 2005 (c. 10), s. 40, Sch. 6 para. 9(3) (with s. 38); S.I. 2005/2800, art. 5(1)(3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F8",
      "text": "Words in s. 23A(2) substituted (1.4.2008 in relation to any report submitted on or after 1.4.2008) by Local Government and Public Involvement in Health Act 2007 (c. 28), ss. 170(3)(b), 245(5); S.I. 2008/917, art. 2(1)(h)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F9",
      "text": "Words in s. 23A(3) substituted (1.4.2006) by Public Services Ombudsman (Wales) Act 2005 (c. 10), s. 40, Sch. 6 para. 9(4) (with s. 38); S.I. 2005/2800, art. 5(1)(3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F10",
      "text": "Words in s. 23A(3) substituted (1.4.2008 in relation to any report submitted on or after 1.4.2008) by Local Government and Public Involvement in Health Act 2007 (c. 28), ss. 170(4), 245(5); S.I. 2008/917, art. 2(1)(h)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F11",
      "text": "S. 23A(3A) inserted (1.4.2008 in relation to any report submitted on or after 1.4.2008) by Local Government and Public Involvement in Health Act 2007 (c. 28), ss. 170(5), 245(5); S.I. 2008/917, art. 2(1)(h)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F12",
      "text": "S. 23A(4) repealed (1.4.2008) by Local Government and Public Involvement in Health Act 2007 (c. 28), ss. 170(6), 245(5), Sch. 18 Pt. 14; S.I. 2008/917, art. 2(1)(h)(ii)(v)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F13",
      "text": "S. 23A(5) repealed (1.4.2008) by Local Government and Public Involvement in Health Act 2007 (c. 28), ss. 170(6), 245(5), Sch. 18 Pt. 14; S.I. 2008/917, art. 2(1)(h)(ii)(v)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F14",
      "text": "S. 23A(6) repealed (1.4.2006) by Public Services Ombudsman (Wales) Act 2005 (c. 10), s. 40, Sch. 6 para. 9(6), Sch. 7 (with s. 38); S.I. 2005/2800, art. 5(1)(3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "S. 23A extended (W.) (28.7.2001) by S.I. 2001/2275, reg. 3"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1974/7/section/23A",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:46:10.523024+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."
}