{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-changes-for-england-regulations-1994/regulation-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-changes-for-england-regulations-1994/regulation-1.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1994/867",
  "legislation_title": "The Local Government Changes for England Regulations 1994",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-changes-for-england-regulations-1994",
  "path": "regulation/1",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Citation, commencement and application",
  "text": "(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Local Government Changes for England Regulations 1994, and shall come into force on 12th April 1994.\n(2) These Regulations make incidental, consequential, transitional and supplementary provision of general application for the purposes of, and in consequence of, orders made by the Secretary of State under section 17 of the Local Government Act 1992 with respect to local government changes in England, and they have effect subject to any provision in the order itself or in any other instrument made under Part II of that Act.\n(3) The Local Government Area Changes Regulations 1976 shall not apply to any order made under section 17 of the Local Government Act 1992.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1976/246, amended by S.I. 1978/247."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "See section 19(4) of that Act, which continues the effect of those Regulations in the absence of provision to the contrary."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "amended",
      "affecting": "uksi/1996/611",
      "affecting_title": "The Local Government Changes for England (Amendment) Regulations 1996"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1994/867/regulation/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T13:36:06.191702+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."
}