{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-parishes-and-parish-councils-regulations-1999/regulation-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-parishes-and-parish-councils-regulations-1999/regulation-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1999/545",
  "legislation_title": "The Local Government (Parishes and Parish Councils) Regulations 1999",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-parishes-and-parish-councils-regulations-1999",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "In these Regulations–\n“the Act” means the Local Government and Rating Act 1997;\n“the 1992 Act” means the Local Government Act 1992;\n“the 1972 Act” means the Local Government Act 1972;\n“abolished authority” means a parish council which is wound up and dissolved by an order;\n“enactment” includes a local and personal Act, a private Act and any subordinate legislation within the meaning of the Interpretation Act 1978;\n“existing”, in relation to an area affected by an order, means that area as it exists on the date the order is made;\n“order” means an order under section 14 (implementation by Secretary of State) of the Act;\n“order date” means the date (being 1st April in any year) which is specified as such in the order;\n“proper officer”, in relation to any purpose and any body, means the person appointed for that purpose by that body;\n“transferor authority” means a parish council which, in consequence of an order, ceases to exercise functions in relation to an area (“transferred area”) on the order date; and\n“transferee authority” means–\n(a) a parish council by which, in consequence of an order, functions in relation to a transferred area are exercisable on and after the order date;\n(b) where there is no such council, the district council or unitary county council in whose area the transferred area is situated.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1992 c. 19."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1972 c. 70."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "1978 c. 30; see section 21."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1999/545/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:59:34.025429+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."
}