{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-act-1999/section-27",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-act-1999/section-27.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1999/27",
  "legislation_title": "Local Government Act 1999",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-act-1999",
  "path": "section/27",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "27",
  "heading": "Commencement.",
  "text": "(1) Subject to subsections (2) and (3), sections 1 to 20 and 22 to 26 shall come into force at the end of the period of 12 months beginning with the day on which this Act is passed.\n(2) The Secretary of State may by order provide for—\n(a) any of sections 1 to 13, 15, 19, 20, 22, 23, 25 and 26 to be brought into force in relation to England before the time appointed by subsection (1);\n(b) any of those sections, in so far as it relates to an authority falling within section 1(1)(d) or (e), to be brought into force in relation to Wales before that time;\n(c) any of sections 14, 16 to 18 and 24 to be brought into force before that time.\n(3) The National Assembly for Wales may by order provide for any of the sections mentioned in subsection (2)(a), except in so far as it relates to an authority falling within section 1(1)(d) or (e), to be brought into force in relation to Wales before the time appointed by subsection (1).\n(4) An order under subsection (2) or (3) may appoint different days for different purposes.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "P",
      "label": "P1",
      "text": "S. 27(2)(4) power partly exercised (28.7.1999): different dates appointed for specified provisions by S.I. 1999/2169, arts. 2, 3, 4, Sch. 1, Sch. 2, Sch. 3"
    },
    {
      "type": "P",
      "label": "P2",
      "text": "S. 27(2)(a) power partly exercised: 3.7.2000 appointed for specified provisions by S.I. 2000/1724, art. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "P",
      "label": "P3",
      "text": "S. 27(3)(4) power partly exercised (28.9.1999): different dates appointed for specified provisions by S.I. 1999/2815, arts. 2, 3"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1999/27/section/27",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:21:48.465960+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."
}