{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-act-1988-defined-activities-competition-wales-regulations-1988/regulation-2",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1988/1468",
  "legislation_title": "The Local Government Act 1988 (Defined Activities) (Competition) (Wales) Regulations 1988",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-act-1988-defined-activities-competition-wales-regulations-1988",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Citation and commencement",
  "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 body in Wales mentioned in section 1(1)(a), (b), (e) and (j) of the Act which is, or is treated as, a defined authority for the purposes of Part I of the Act.\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.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1964 c. 48; section 2 was amended by the Courts Act 1971 (c. 23), section 53(5); the Local Government Act 1972 (c. 70), section 196(1) and (2) and Schedule 30; and the Local Government Act 1985 (c. 51), Schedule 11, paragraph 1(2) and (3), and Schedule 17."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1988/1468/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T16:00:24.655489+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."
}