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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-and-public-involvement-in-health-act-2007/section-2",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/2007/28",
  "legislation_title": "Local Government and Public Involvement in Health Act 2007",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-and-public-involvement-in-health-act-2007",
  "path": "section/2",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Invitations and directions for proposals for single tier of local government",
  "text": "(1) The Secretary of State may invite or direct any principal authority to make one of the following proposals—\n(a) a Type A proposal;\n(b) a Type B proposal;\n(c) a Type C proposal;\n(d) a combined proposal.\n(2) A Type A proposal is a proposal that there should be a single tier of local government for the area which is the county concerned.\n(3) A Type B proposal is a proposal that there should be a single tier of local government for an area which—\n(a) is currently a district, or two or more districts, in the county concerned; and\n(b) is specified in the proposal.\n(4) A Type C proposal is a proposal that there should be a single tier of local government for an area specified in the proposal which currently consists of—\n(a) the county concerned or one or more districts in the county concerned; and\n(b) one or more relevant adjoining areas.\n(5) A combined proposal is a proposal that consists of—\n(a) two or more Type B proposals,\n(b) two or more Type C proposals, or\n(c) one or more Type B proposals and one or more Type C proposals,\nbut a proposal is not a combined proposal if it includes any Type B or C proposals that are alternatives.\n(6) In this section “the county concerned” means—\n(a) in relation to a principal authority which is the council for a county, that county;\n(b) in relation to a principal authority which is the council for a district, the county in which the district is.\n(7) In this section a “relevant adjoining area” means an area which adjoins the county concerned and is currently a county in England, a district in England, or two or more such counties or districts.\n(8) An invitation or direction may either—\n(a) be such that the authority may choose whether to make a Type A, Type B, Type C or combined proposal; or\n(b) specify which one of those kinds of proposal is invited (or, in the case of a direction, required).\n(9) Subsection (1) is subject to section 3(1).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 2 in force at 1.11.2007 for E. by S.I. 2007/3136, art. 2(a)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2007/28/section/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:12:26.064223+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."
}