{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-boundary-changes-regulations-2018/regulation-16",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-boundary-changes-regulations-2018/regulation-16.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2018/1128",
  "legislation_title": "The Local Government (Boundary Changes) Regulations 2018",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-boundary-changes-regulations-2018",
  "path": "regulation/16",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "16",
  "heading": "Returning officers and proper officers",
  "text": "(1) The returning officer and the proper officer at any election of councillors of parishes in the area of a predecessor council that will take place after the reorganisation date but for which proceedings must be taken by a returning officer or proper officer before that date shall be—\n(a) the officers appointed as such by the shadow authority; or\n(b) if the shadow authority has not appointed a returning officer or a proper officer before the date on which the notice of election must be published, the returning officer and proper officer appointed by the predecessor council.\n(2) In this regulation, “proper officer” means the proper officer for the purposes of the Local Elections (Parishes and Communities) (England and Wales) Rules 2006.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 16 in force at 26.11.2018, see reg. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "See section 35 of the Representation of the People Act 1983 (c. 2) for meaning of “returning officer”."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "S.I. 2006/3305."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2018/1128/regulation/16",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T22:52:49.771893+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."
}