{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-relevant-authorities-power-to-trade-wales-order-2022/article-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-relevant-authorities-power-to-trade-wales-order-2022/article-1.json",
  "legislation": "wsi/2022/424",
  "legislation_title": "The Local Government (Relevant Authorities) (Power to Trade) (Wales) Order 2022",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-relevant-authorities-power-to-trade-wales-order-2022",
  "path": "article/1",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Title, commencement, application and interpretation",
  "text": "(1) The title of this Order is the Local Government (Relevant Authorities) (Power to Trade) (Wales) Order 2022 and it comes into force on 5 May 2022.\n(2) This Order applies in relation to Wales.\n(3) In this Order—\n“company” (“cwmni”) means a company within the meaning of Part 5 of the Local Government and Housing Act 1989;\n“ordinary functions” (“swyddogaethau cyffredin”) has the meaning given in section 95(7) of the Local Government Act 2003;\n“relevant authority” (“awdurdod perthnasol”) means—\n(a) county councils or county borough councils;\n(b) community councils which are eligible community councils within the meaning of section 30(1) of the Local Government and Elections (Wales) Act 2021 (“the 2021 Act”) ;\n(c) National Park authorities;\n(d) fire and rescue authorities, constituted by a scheme under section 2 of the Fire and Rescue Services Act 2004 or a scheme to which section 4 of that Act applies;\n(e) corporate joint committees established by regulations made under Part 5 of the 2021 Act.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1989 c. 42."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "2021 asc 1."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "2004 c. 21."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2022/424/article/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:07:16.576935+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."
}