{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-prescribed-expenditure-consolidation-and-amendment-regulations-1987/regulation-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-prescribed-expenditure-consolidation-and-amendment-regulations-1987/regulation-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1987/2186",
  "legislation_title": "The Local Government (Prescribed Expenditure) (Consolidation and Amendment) Regulations 1987",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-prescribed-expenditure-consolidation-and-amendment-regulations-1987",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "In these Regulations —\n“the Act” means the Local Government, Planning and Land Act 1980;\n“highway authority” has the meaning ascribed to it by section 1(2) and (3) of the Highways Act 1980;\n“housing association” has the meaning ascribed to it by section 5(1) of the Housing Act 1985;\n“shared ownership lease” has the meaning ascribed to it by section 622 of the Housing Act 1985; and\n“subsidiary” shall be construed in accordance with section 736 of the Companies Act 1985.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1980 c. 66."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1985 c. 68."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "1985 c. 6."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "amended",
      "affecting": "uksi/1988/1534",
      "affecting_title": "The Local Government (Prescribed Expenditure) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 1988"
    },
    {
      "type": "amended",
      "affecting": "uksi/1988/434",
      "affecting_title": "The Local Government (Prescribed Expenditure) (Amendment) Regulations 1988"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1987/2186/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T16:14:39.758594+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."
}