{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-politically-restricted-posts-wales-regulations-2008/introduction",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-politically-restricted-posts-wales-regulations-2008/introduction.json",
  "legislation": "wsi/2008/220",
  "legislation_title": "The Local Government (Politically Restricted Posts) (Wales) Regulations 2008",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-politically-restricted-posts-wales-regulations-2008",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "LOCAL GOVERNMENT, WALES\nMade 3 February 2008\nLaid before the National Assembly for Wales 5 February 2008\nComing into force 29 February 2008\nThe Welsh Ministers, in exercise of the powers conferred on the Secretary of State by sections 2(2)(a) and 190(1) of the Local Government and Housing Act 1989 and now vested in them, make the following Regulations:",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1989 (c. 42)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "The functions of the Secretary of State under section 2(2)(a) and 190(1) were, so far as exercisable in relation to Wales, transferred to the National Assembly for Wales under the National Assembly for Wales (Transfer of Functions) Order 1999 (S.I. 1999/672). The functions of the National Assembly for Wales under those sections were transferred to the Welsh Ministers under section 162 of, and paragraph 30 of Schedule 11 to, the Government of Wales Act 2006 (c. 32)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2008/220/introduction",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:59:08.992314+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."
}