{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-act-1988-competition-information-technology-services-wales-regulations-1997/regulation-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-act-1988-competition-information-technology-services-wales-regulations-1997/regulation-1.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1997/125",
  "legislation_title": "The Local Government Act 1988 (Competition) (Information Technology Services) (Wales) Regulations 1997",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-act-1988-competition-information-technology-services-wales-regulations-1997",
  "path": "regulation/1",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Citation, commencement and application",
  "text": "(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Local Government Act 1988 (Competition) (Information Technology Services) (Wales) Regulations 1997 and shall come into force on 21st February 1997.\n(2) These Regulations apply only in relation to the following defined authorities in Wales—\n(a) a local authority;\n(b) a combined fire authority;\n(c) a National Park authority; and\n(d) a joint committee which falls to be treated as a defined authority by section 1(4) of the Act and which is appointed only by two or more defined authorities within paragraph (a), (b) or (c) above.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "For the meaning of “defined authority”, see section 1 of the Act."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "For the meaning of “local authority”, see section 1(2A) of the Act which was inserted by the Local Government Reorganisation (Wales) (Consequential Amendments) Order 1995 (S.I. 1995/115)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "See section 1(1)(aa) of the Act which was inserted by paragraph 8(2) of Schedule 8 to the Environment Act 1995 (c. 25)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1997/125/regulation/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:27:26.768945+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."
}