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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-committees-and-political-groups-regulations-1990/regulation-4",
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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/4",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Prescribed functions of authorities where all members of committees discharging those functions may have voting rights",
  "text": "(1) The following functions are prescribed for the purposes of section 13(4)(g) of the 1989 Act—\n(a) the management of land owned or occupied by the authority, other than houses within the meaning of section 56 of the Housing Act 1985 which are provided under Part II of that Act;\n(b) in the case of a local housing authority as defined in section 1 of the Housing Act 1985, its functions under section 21 to 26 of that Act in so far as they relate to not more that 1,500 houses, or one quarter of the total number of houses which are provided by the authority under Part II of that Act, whichever is less;\n(c) in the case of a harbour authority as defined in section 57(1) of the Harbours Act 1964, its functions as such;\n(d) any function under section 144 of the 1972 Act or section 33 of the 1989 Act relating to the promotion of tourism;\n(e) any function under section 145 of the 1972 Act relating to the management of a festival;\n(f) in the case of a London borough council or the Common Council of the City of London in its capacity as a local authority, police authority or port health authority, the training of staff for the purposes of discharging any function under the Local Authority Social Services Act 1970;\n(g) ... any function under regulations made by virtue of section 7 of the Superannuation Act 1972; ...\n(h) in the case of the council of a county in England, any function of that council mentioned in the Schedule to these Regulations to the extent that it is discharged by a committee the members of which consist solely of members of that council and of members of the council of any district in the county or (as the case may be) a district which has ceased to be in the county pursuant to an order made under section 17 of the Local Government Act 1992 giving effect to a structural change (within the meaning of that Act); and\n(i) in the case of the council of a district, any function of that council mentioned in that Schedule to the extent that it is discharged by a committee the members of which consist solely of members of that council and of members of the council of the county in which the district is situated.\n(2) There is prescribed for the purposes of section 13(4)(g) of the 1989 Act in relation to an authority in Wales any education functions (within the meaning of section 579(1) of the Education Act 1996) to the extent that they are discharged jointly by all such local education authorities.\n(3) For the purposes of paragraph (1)(a) and (e) “management” does not include the determination of the total amount of money which may be expended in any financial year by the authority in respect of the land or festival, as the case may be; and in so far as the functions referred to in paragraph (1)(b) include the managment of houses, they shall be taken to exclude the making of any such determination.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in reg. 4(1)(g) revoked (2.9.1998) by The Local Government (Committees and Political Groups) (Amendment) Regulations 1998 (S.I. 1998/1918), regs. 1, 3(1)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Reg. 4(1)(h)(i) substituted for reg. 4(1)(h) (2.9.1998) by The Local Government (Committees and Political Groups) (Amendment) Regulations 1998 (S.I. 1998/1918), regs. 1, 3(1)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in reg. 4(2) substituted (5.5.2010) by The Local Education Authorities and Children’s Services Authorities (Integration of Functions) (Subordinate Legislation) (Wales) Order 2010 (S.I. 2010/1142), art. 1(1), Sch. 2 para. 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 4 in force at 1.8.1990, see reg. 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1985 c. 68."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1964 c. 40."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "Section 144 was amended by Schedule 2 to the Local Government (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1976 (c. 57), by section 190 of, and Schedule 34 to, the Local Government, Planning and Land Act 1980 (c. 65), and by Schedule 17 to the Local Government Act 1985 (c. 51)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f4",
      "text": "1970 c. 42."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f5",
      "text": "1972 c. 11; see S.I. 1986/24, amended by S.I. 1986/380, 1987/293, 1579 and 2110, 1988/466 and 1990/1285."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1990/1553/regulation/4",
    "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."
}