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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-changes-for-england-direct-labour-and-service-organisations-regulations-1994/regulation-2",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1994/3167",
  "legislation_title": "The Local Government Changes for England (Direct Labour and Service Organisations) Regulations 1994",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-changes-for-england-direct-labour-and-service-organisations-regulations-1994",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "In these Regulations—\n“the 1992 Act” means the Local Government Act 1992;\n“abolished authority” means a local authority which is wound up and dissolved by an order;\n“designated authority” in relation to an abolished authority means—\n(a) where there is one successor authority, that authority;\n(b) where there are two or more successor authorities, the successor authority specified in an order as the designated authority for the purposes of the Local Government changes for England (Finance) Regulations 1994;\n“order” means an order under section 17 of the 1992 Act which effects a structural change, and “order date” in relation to a relevant authority means the date on which an order comes into force, or, if there is more than one such date, the first of them;\n“relevant authority” means a transferor authority or successor authority;\n“reorganisation date” in relation to an authority for any area means the date on which any structural change, or boundary change made for the purpose of facilitating a structural change, affecting that area takes effect;\n“shadow authority” in relation to a new authority means the authority established for the purposes of that authority in pursuance of the Local Government Changes for England Regulations 1994;\n“successor authority” in relation to an abolished authority means a local authority which is to have from the reorganisation date all the functions (or would have all the functions but for an order under section 21 or 22 of the Act) in relation to an area, being functions which before that date were the functions of an abolished authority in relation to that area, and\n“transferor authority” in relation to a successor authority means the authority whose functions are so transferred.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1994/2825."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "S.I. 1994/867."
    }
  ],
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    },
    {
      "type": "rev. in pt.",
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      "affecting_title": "The Local Government Changes for England and Local Government Act 1988 (Competition)(Miscellaneous Amendment) Regulations 1995"
    },
    {
      "type": "substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/1995/1326",
      "affecting_title": "The Local Government Changes for England and Local Government Act 1988 (Competition)(Miscellaneous Amendment) Regulations 1995"
    },
    {
      "type": "amended",
      "affecting": "uksi/1996/1882",
      "affecting_title": "The Local Government Changes For England (Direct Labour and Service Organisations) (Amendment) Regulations 1996"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1994/3167/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T13:20:51.619862+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."
}