{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-miscellaneous-provisions-act-1976/section-79",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-miscellaneous-provisions-act-1976/section-79.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1976/57",
  "legislation_title": "Local Government (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1976",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-miscellaneous-provisions-act-1976",
  "path": "section/79",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "79",
  "heading": "Authentication of licences.",
  "text": "Notwithstanding anything in section 43 of the Act of 1847, any vehicle licence or driver’s licence granted by a district council under that Act, or any licence granted by a district council under this Part of this Act, shall not be required to be under the common seal of the district council, but if not so sealed shall be signed by an authorised officer of the council.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "S. 79: functions of local authority not to be responsibility of an executive of the authority (E.) (16.11.2000) by virtue of S.I. 2000/2853, reg. 2(1), Sch. 1 Table B3-5"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C2",
      "text": "Ss. 72-80 modified (27.11.2009) by The Local Services (Operation by Licensed Hire Cars) Regulations 2009 (S.I. 2009/2863), regs. 1, 4 Table (with reg. 3)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1976/57/section/79",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:28:53.162312+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."
}