{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-scotland-act-1973/section-190",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-scotland-act-1973/section-190.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1973/65",
  "legislation_title": "Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-scotland-act-1973",
  "path": "section/190",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "190",
  "heading": "Service of legal proceedings, notices, etc., on local authorities.",
  "text": "Any legal proceedings against a local authority shall be deemed to have been duly served on the authority if served on the proper officer of the authority, and any notice, order or other document required or authorised by any enactment or any instrument made under an enactment to be sent, delivered or served to or upon a local authority or to or upon the proper officer or convener of a local authority, shall be addressed to the local authority or to the proper officer or convener as the case may be, and left at, or sent by post in a prepaid letter to, the offices of the local authority.",
  "extent": "S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 190 substituted (1.4.1996) by 1994 c. 39, s. 180(1), Sch. 13 para. 92(59); S.I. 1996/323, art. 4(1)(b)(c)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "S. 190 applied (10.10.2005) by Transport (Scotland) Act 2005 (asp 12), ss. 4, 54(2), Sch. 1 para. 13(1); S.S.I. 2005/454, art. 2, Sch. 2"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1973/65/section/190",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:46:26.996319+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."
}