{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-act-1988-defined-activities-works-contracts-exemptions-wales-order-1997/article-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-act-1988-defined-activities-works-contracts-exemptions-wales-order-1997/article-1.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1997/1700",
  "legislation_title": "The Local Government Act 1988 (Defined Activities) (Works Contracts) (Exemptions) (Wales) Order 1997",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-act-1988-defined-activities-works-contracts-exemptions-wales-order-1997",
  "path": "article/1",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Citation, commencement and application",
  "text": "(1) This Order may be cited as the Local Government Act 1988 (Defined Activities) (Works Contracts) (Exemptions) (Wales) Order 1997 and shall come into force on 14th August 1997.\n(2) This Order applies 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 Local Government Act 1988 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 Local Government Act 1988 (“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/1997/1700/article/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:05:49.255201+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."
}