{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-reorganisation-walesfinance-order-1996/article-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-reorganisation-walesfinance-order-1996/article-4.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1996/88",
  "legislation_title": "The Local Government Reorganisation (Wales)(Finance) Order 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-reorganisation-walesfinance-order-1996",
  "path": "article/4",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Power to incur expenditure for purposes not otherwise authorised",
  "text": "(1) In relation to expenditure incurred under section 137 of the 1972 Act (power of local authorities to incur expenditure for certain purposes not otherwise authorised) by an old authority—\n(a) the reference in paragraph (d) of subsection (4B) of that section to any grant received by the authority, shall on and after 1st April 1996 be construed as including any grant received by a new authority in respect of an old authority, and\n(b) the reference in paragraph (f)(iii) of that subsection to any grant or other payment to the authority shall on and after 1st April 1996 be construed as including any grant or payment to a new authority in respect of the old authority.\n(2) The reference in section 137(7) of the 1972 Act to any statement of accounts prepared by a local authority pursuant to regulations under section 23 of the 1982 Act shall on and after 1st April 1996 be construed, in relation to the accounts of an old authority, as including any statement of accounts prepared by the designated authority.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1996/88/article/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:54:19.425614+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."
}