{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-act-1988-defined-activities-competition-england-regulations-1988/regulation-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-act-1988-defined-activities-competition-england-regulations-1988/regulation-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1988/1371",
  "legislation_title": "The Local Government Act 1988 (Defined Activities) (Competition) (England) Regulations 1988",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-act-1988-defined-activities-competition-england-regulations-1988",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "In these Regulations—\n“the Act” means the Local Government Act 1988;\n“county police authority” means a police authority constituted under section 2 of the Police Act 1964;\n“specified authority” means—\n(i) any defined authority which has functions in England other than—\n(a) a development corporation established for the purposes of a new town;\n(b) the Commission for the New Towns; or\n(c) the Inner London Education Authority; and\n(ii) any joint committee which falls to be treated as a defined authority by section 1(4) of the Act and of which at least one of the members is an authority which is a specified authority by virtue of sub-paragraph (i) above;\n“work” does not include work carried out elsewhere than in England.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1964 c. 48; section 2 was amended by the Local Government Act 1972 (c. 70), section 196 and Schedule 30, the Courts Act 1971 (c. 23), section 53(5) and the Local Government Act 1985 (c. 51), Schedule 11, paragraph 1."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1988/1371/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T16:01:15.738748+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."
}