{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-act-1988/schedule-2/crossheading-public-authorities",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-act-1988/schedule-2/crossheading-public-authorities.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1988/9",
  "legislation_title": "Local Government Act 1988",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-act-1988",
  "path": "schedule/2/crossheading/public-authorities",
  "kind": "crossheading",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Public authorities",
  "text": "A local authority.\nAn executive of a local authority (within the meaning of Part II of the Local Government Act 2000).\nThe Greater London Authority.\nAn urban development corporation established by an order under section 135 of the Local Government, Planning and Land Act 1980.\na Mayoral development corporation.\nA development corporation established for the purposes of a new town.\nThe Homes and Communities Agency so far as exercising functions in relation to anything transferred (or to be transferred) to it as mentioned in section 52(1)(a) to (d) of the Housing and Regeneration Act 2008.\n...\n...\nA fire authority constituted by a combination scheme fire and rescue authority constituted by a scheme under section 2 of the Fire and Rescue Services Act 2004 or a scheme to which section 4 of that Act applies, a fire and rescue authority created by an order under section 4A of that Act and a metropolitan county fire and civil defence authority.\nThe London Fire Commissioner.\nA metropolitan county passenger transport authority. An Integrated Transport Authority for an integrated transport area in England.\nAn economic prosperity board established under section 88 of the Local Democracy, Economic Development and Construction Act 2009.\nA combined authority established under section 103 of that Act.\nA combined county authority established under section 9(1) of the Levelling-up and Regeneration Act 2023.\nAn authority established by an order under section 10(1) of the Local Government Act 1985 (waste disposal).\n...\n. . . . . ..\n. . .\n. . ..\nThe Broads Authority.\nAny National Park authority\n. . .\n. . .\nThe Strathclyde Passenger Transport Authority.\nA National Park authority in Scotland.\nA Transport Partnership created under the Transport (Scotland) Act 2005 (asp 12)\nA joint planning board constituted under section 2(1B) of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990.\n. . .\nA Passenger Transport Executive, that is to say, any body constituted as such an Executive for an integrated transport area or a passenger transport area for the purposes of Part II of the Transport Act 1968.\nA local probation board established under section 4 of the Criminal Justice and Court Services Act 2000\nA probation trust.\nA joint committee discharging under section 101 of the Local Government Act 1972 functions of local authorities (within the meaning of that section).\nA corporate joint committee established by regulations under Part 5 of the Local Government and Elections (Wales) Act 2021.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 2 inserted (11.7.2001 for E., 1.4.2002 for W.) by The Local Authorities (Executive and Alternative Arrangements) (Modification of Enactments and Other Provisions) (England) Order 2001 (S.I. 2001/2237), art. 18(2) and The Local Authorities (Executive and Alternative Arrangements) (Modification of Enactments and Other Provisions) (Wales) Order 2002 (S.I. 2002/808), art. 17(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 2 inserted (8.5.2000) by 1999 c. 29, s. 80 (with Sch. 12 para. 9(1)); S.I. 2000/801, art. 2(2)(b), Sch. Pt. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 2 inserted (15.1.2012) by Localism Act 2011 (c. 20), s. 240(1)(l), Sch. 22 para. 23"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 2 substituted (1.12.2008) by Housing and Regeneration Act 2008 (c. 17), s. 325(1), Sch. 8 para. 43; S.I. 2008/3068, art. 2(1)(w)(3) (with arts. 6-13)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 2 omitted (16.1.2012) by virtue of Police Reform and Social Responsibility Act 2011 (c. 13), s. 157(1), Sch. 16 para. 179; S.I. 2011/3019, art. 3, Sch. 1 (with Sch. 2 para. 53)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 2 substituted (E.W.) (1.10.2004 except in relation to W., 10.11.2004 for W.) by Fire and Rescue Services Act 2004 (c. 21), s. 61, Sch. 1 para. 65; S.I. 2004/2304, art. 2; S.I. 2004/2917, art. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F7",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 2 inserted (31.1.2017 for specified purposes, 3.4.2017 in so far as not already in force) by Policing and Crime Act 2017 (c. 3), s. 183(1)(5)(e), Sch. 1 para. 55; S.I. 2017/399, reg. 2, Sch. para. 38"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F8",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 2 substituted (31.1.2017 for specified purposes, 1.4.2018 in so far as not already in force) by Policing and Crime Act 2017 (c. 3), s. 183(1)(5)(e), Sch. 2 para. 80; S.I. 2018/227, reg. 4(c)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F9",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 2 substituted (E.W.) (9.2.2009) by Local Transport Act 2008 (c. 26), s. 134(4), Sch. 4 para. 55(2)(a); S.I. 2009/107, art. 2(1), Sch. 1 Pt. 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F10",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 2 inserted (17.12.2009) by Local Democracy, Economic Development and Construction Act 2009 (c. 20), s. 148(6), Sch. 6 para. 73; S.I. 2009/3318, art. 2(c)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F11",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 2 inserted (E.W.) (26.12.2023) by Levelling-up and Regeneration Act 2023 (c. 55), s. 255(2)(c), Sch. 4 para. 91 (with s. 247)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F12",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 2 omitted (26.5.2015) by virtue of Deregulation Act 2015 (c. 20), s. 115(7), Sch. 13 para. 6(21); S.I. 2015/994, art. 6(g)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F13",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 2 repealed (1.4.1994) by 1993 c. 35, s. 307(1)(3), Sch. 19 para. 110, Sch. 21 Pt. II; S.I. 1994/507, art. 4, Sch. 2, Appendix"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F14",
      "text": "Words repealed by Education Reform Act 1988 (c. 40, SIF 41:1), ss. 231(7), 235(6), 237(2), Sch. 13 Pt. I"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F15",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 2 repealed (S.) (1.4.1996) by 1994 c. 39, s. 180(2), Sch. 14; S.I. 1996/323, art. 4(1)(a), Sch. 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F16",
      "text": "Words repealed by Housing (Scotland) Act 1988 (c. 43, SIF 61), ss. 1, 3(1)(3), s. 72(3), Sch. 2 para. 17, Sch. 10"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F17",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 2 inserted (19.9.1995) by 1995 c. 25, ss. 65(7), 125(2), Sch. 8 para. 8(3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F18",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 2 repealed (1.4.1997) by 1995 c. 25, s. 120(3), Sch. 24 (with ss. 7(6), 115, 117); S.I. 1996/2560, art. 2, Sch."
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F19",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 2 inserted (S.) (1.4.1996) by 1994 c. 39, s. 180(1), Sch. 13 para. 156(6)(a); S.I. 1996/323, art. 4(1)(b)(c)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F20",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 2 inserted (S.) (8.9.2000) by 2000 asp 10, ss. 36, 37(1), Sch. 5 para. 13 (with s. 32); S.S.I. 2000/312, art. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F21",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 2 inserted (S.) (10.10.2005) by Transport (Scotland) Act 2005 (asp 12), s. 54(2), sch. 1 para. 16(4); S.S.I. 2005/454, art. 2, sch. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F22",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 2 inserted (1.4.1996) by 1994 c. 19, s. 20(4), Sch. 6 Pt. II para. 20 (with ss. 54(7), 55(7), Sch. 17 paras. 22(1), 23(2)); S.I. 1996/396, art. 3, Sch. 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F23",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 2 inserted (E.W.) (9.2.2009) by Local Transport Act 2008 (c. 26), s. 134(4), Sch. 4 para. 55(2)(b); S.I. 2009/107, art. 2(1), Sch. 1 Pt. 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F24",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 2 substituted (1.4.2001) by 2000 c. 43, s. 74, Sch. 7 para. 82; S.I. 2001/919, art. 2(f)(ii)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F25",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 2 inserted (1.4.2008) by The Offender Management Act 2007 (Consequential Amendments) Order 2008 (S.I. 2008/912), art. 1, Sch. 1 para. 8(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F26",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 2 inserted (E.W.) (25.3.2022) by The Corporate Joint Committees (General) (Wales) Regulations 2022 (S.I. 2022/372), regs. 1(2), 16"
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "1990 c. 8."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M2",
      "text": "1968 c. 73."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M3",
      "text": "1972 c. 70."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "asc/2026/7",
      "affecting_title": "Planning (Consequential Provisions) (Wales) Act 2026"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1988/9/schedule/2/crossheading/public-authorities",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:48:52.191471+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."
}