{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-committees-and-political-groups-regulations-1990/regulation-8",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-committees-and-political-groups-regulations-1990/regulation-8.json",
  "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/8",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": "Constitution of political groups",
  "text": "(1) A political group shall be treated as constituted when there is delivered to the proper officer a notice in writing which—\n(a) is signed by two or more members of the authority who wish to be treated as a political group; and\n(b) complies with the provisions of paragraph (3).\n(2) A political group shall cease to be constituted if the number of persons who are to be treated as members of that group is less that two.\n(3) A notice under paragraph (1) shall state—\n(a) that the members of the authority who have signed it wish to be treated as a political group;\n(b) the name of the group; and\n(c) the name of one member of the group who has signed the notice and who is to act as its leader.\n(4) A notice under paragraph (1) may specify the name of one other member of the group who has signed the notice and who is authorised to act in the place of the leader in relation to these Regulations (“the representative”).\n(5) The name of the group or the name of the person who is the leader or representative may be changed by a further notice in writing delivered to the proper officer and signed—\n(a) in the case of a change in the name of the group or the representative, by the leader of the group or a majority of the members of the group;\n(b) in the case of a change of the leader of the group, by a majority of the members of the group.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in reg. 8(4) substituted (8.7.1991) by The Local Government (Committees and Political Groups) (Amendment) Regulations 1991 (S.I. 1991/1398), regs. 1, 5(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Word in reg. 8(5) substituted (8.7.1991) by The Local Government (Committees and Political Groups) (Amendment) Regulations 1991 (S.I. 1991/1398), regs. 1, 5(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 8 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/8",
    "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."
}