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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-committees-and-political-groups-amendment-regulations-1991/regulation-6",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-committees-and-political-groups-amendment-regulations-1991/regulation-6.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1991/1398",
  "legislation_title": "The Local Government (Committees and Political Groups) (Amendment) Regulations 1991",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-committees-and-political-groups-amendment-regulations-1991",
  "path": "regulation/6",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "6",
  "heading": "Exception to the application of section 15",
  "text": "–\n(1) In Part IV before regulation 17 insert–\n“Area committees and sub-committees\n16A Section 15 of the 1989 Act shall not apply to any ordinary committee or advisory committee of an authority which is a county, district or London borough council or to a sub-committee of any such ordinary or advisory committee, where–\n(a) that committee or sub-committee was established exclusively–\n(i) to discharge functions of the authority, or\n(ii) to advise the authority or any committee of the authority,\nin respect of part of the area of the authority;\n(b) all the voting members of the committee or sub-committee who are members of the council have been elected for electoral divisions or wards which are wholly or partly within that part; and\n(c) either–\n(i) the area of that part does not exceed two-fifths of the total area of the authority, or\n(ii) the population of that part, as estimated by the authority, does not exceed two-fifths of the total population of the area of the authority as so estimated.”.\n(2) In regulation 19 omit paragraph (c).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1991/1398/regulation/6",
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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."
}