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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-changes-for-england-regulations-1994/regulation-2",
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  "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/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "(1) In these Regulations, except where the context otherwise requires, any reference to “the order” is a reference to any order in relation to which these regulations are applicable.\n(2) In these regulations, any reference to—\n(a) “the preliminary date” is a reference to the earliest date on which any action is required to be taken in pursuance of the order;\n(b) “the electoral date” is a reference to the date on which the first elections of councillors for a local government area are held pursuant to the order;\n(c) “the establishment date” is a reference to the date on which the councillors elected on the electoral date come into office;\n(d) “the reorganisation date” is the date on which a structural change or a boundary change comes into effect; and\n(e) “the shadow commencement date” is a reference to the date on which a shadow authority comes into existence.\n(3) In these Regulations, unless the context otherwise requires:\n“abolished authority” means a local authority which is wound up and dissolved on the reorganisation date;\n“newly-established authority” means an authority (not being a shadow authority) established by the order;\n“parish authority” means, in the case of a parish having a separate parish council, that council, in the case of a parish grouped under a joint parish council, the joint parish council, and in any other case, the parish meeting or the parish trustees of the parish, as may be appropriate;\n“shadow authority” means an authority (not being a local authority) which will become a local authority on the reorganisation date;\n“transferred area” means each area of land (being the whole or part of a local government area) in respect of which the order effects a boundary change or a structural change (or both such changes) transferring local government functions to an authority specified in the order;\n“transferee authority” means that specified authority;\n“transferor authority” means the local authority from which such functions are transferred; and\n“unitary authority” means any authority which is the sole principal council for its local government area.\n(4) In these Regulations—\n“abolished area” means a local government area abolished by the order;\n“the Act” means the Local Government Act 1992;\n“the 1972 Act” means the Local Government Act 1972;\n“altered area” means a local government area which is altered or to be altered (but not abolished or created) by the order and which is not the subject of a structural change;\n“district” includes a borough and a metropolitan district;\n“enactment” includes a local and personal Act and a private Act, any subordinate legislation as defined in section 21 of the Interpretation Act 1978, and any scheme made pursuant to any enactment;\n“county functions” means the functions which, in a non-metropolitan county not having a unitary authority, are the functions of the county council, “district functions” means the functions which, in a non-metropolitan district not having a unitary authority, are the functions of the district council, and “parish functions” means the functions vested in and exercisable by a parish authority;\n“shadow period” means, where a shadow authority is created, the period between the shadow commencement date and the reorganisation date, and in all other cases the period between the preliminary date and the reorganisation date; and\n“unparished area” means an area of land not forming part of any parish.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1972 c. 70, as amended."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1978 c. 30."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
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      "type": "words revoked",
      "affecting": "uksi/1995/1748",
      "affecting_title": "The Local Government Changes for England (Miscellaneous Provision) Regulations 1995"
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      "affecting_title": "The Local Government Changes for England (Miscellaneous Provision) Regulations 1995"
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      "affecting_title": "The Local Government Changes for England (Miscellaneous Provision) Regulations 1995"
    },
    {
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      "affecting_title": "The Local Government Changes for England (Miscellaneous Provision) Regulations 1995"
    },
    {
      "type": "added",
      "affecting": "uksi/1995/1748",
      "affecting_title": "The Local Government Changes for England (Miscellaneous Provision) Regulations 1995"
    },
    {
      "type": "substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/1996/330",
      "affecting_title": "The Local Government Changes for England (Miscellaneous Provision) Regulations 1996"
    },
    {
      "type": "added",
      "affecting": "uksi/1995/1055",
      "affecting_title": "The Local Government Changes For England (No. 2) Regulations 1995"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1994/867/regulation/2",
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  },
  "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."
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