{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-area-changes-regulations-1976/regulation-83",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-area-changes-regulations-1976/regulation-83.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1976/246",
  "legislation_title": "The Local Government Area Changes Regulations 1976",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-area-changes-regulations-1976",
  "path": "regulation/83",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "83",
  "heading": "Minutes of last meetings",
  "text": "(1) This regulation shall apply to any dissolved authority other than parish trustees and to the committees and sub-committees thereof.\n(2) The minutes of the last meeting of any body to whom this regulation applies shall if practicable be signed at such meeting.\n(3) If it is not practicable for the minutes to be so signed they may be signed by the person who presided at the meeting in accordance with paragraph (4), (5) or (6), and—\n(a) any minute purporting to be so signed shall be received in evidence without further proof; and\n(b) until the contrary is proved, the meeting in respect of the proceedings whereof a minute has been made and so signed shall be deemed to have been duly convened and held, and all the members present at the meeting shall be deemed to have been duly qualified, and where the proceedings are the proceedings of a committee or sub-committee the committee or sub-committee shall be deemed to have been duly constituted and to have had power to deal with the matters referred to in the minutes.\n(4) Minutes of the proceedings of the last meeting of any body to whom this regulation applies other than a committee or sub-committee or a parish meeting may be signed as aforesaid on or after the 7th day following the transmission to every member of the body of a copy of the minutes and of a notification of the purport of paragraph (3) and this paragraph. The person who presided at the meeting shall take into consideration any representations made by any such member.\n(5) Minutes of the proceedings of the last meeting of a committee or sub-committee may be signed as aforesaid on or after the 7th day following the transmission to every member of the committee or sub-committee of a notification of the purport of paragraph (3) and this paragraph, with a copy of the minutes or information as to the availability of a copy for inspection. The person who presided at the meeting shall take into consideration any representations made by any such member.\n(6) Minutes of the proceedings of the last meeting of a parish meeting may be signed as aforesaid after such consultation as the person presiding at the meeting shall think appropriate.\n(7) If the person who presided at the meeting is not able to sign the minutes in accordance with paragraph (4), (5) or (6), paragraph (3) and such paragraph shall have effect with the substitution for any reference to the person who presided at the meeting of a reference to such person as the Secretary of State may direct.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1976/246/regulation/83",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:34:17.585554+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."
}