{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-committees-and-political-groups-regulations-1990/regulation-12",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1990/1553",
  "legislation_title": "The Local Government (Committees and Political Groups) Regulations 1990",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-committees-and-political-groups-regulations-1990",
  "path": "regulation/12",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "12",
  "heading": "Same political group",
  "text": "The members of two or more political groups constituted in accordance with regulation 8 shall be treated as members of the same political group for the purposes of applying the provisions in section 9 and the principle in section 15(5)(a) of the 1989 Act where more than half of the members of one of those political groups are described in the papers by which they are nominated for election, as belonging to a political group which is described in substantially the same terms in the nomination papers of more than half of the members of another political group.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 12 in force at 1.8.1990, see reg. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1990/1553/regulation/12",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T15:11:04.151811+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."
}