{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-structural-and-boundary-changes-staffing-regulations-2008/regulation-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-structural-and-boundary-changes-staffing-regulations-2008/regulation-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2008/1419",
  "legislation_title": "The Local Government (Structural and Boundary Changes) (Staffing) Regulations 2008",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-structural-and-boundary-changes-staffing-regulations-2008",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "In these Regulations—\n“the 2007 Act” means the Local Government and Public Involvement in Health Act 2007;\n“the 1993 Regulations” means the Local Authorities (Standing Orders) Regulations 1993;\n“the 2001 Regulations” means the Local Authorities (Standing Orders) (England) Regulations 2001;\n“the TUPE Regulations” means the Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment) Regulations 2006;\n“boundary change” has the meaning given by section 8(3) of the 2007 Act;\n“head of paid service” means an officer responsible for performing the duties imposed by subsections (2), (4) and (5) of section 4 (designation and reports of head of paid service) of the Local Government and Housing Act 1989;\n“Implementation Executive” means a committee of a preparing council’s executive established in pursuance of an order;\n“order” means an order under section 7 or 10 of the 2007 Act;\n“predecessor council” means a local authority which, by or in consequence of an order, will cease to exercise functions in relation to an area;\n“preparing council” means a local authority which, in accordance with an order, becomes a single tier council on the reorganisation date;\n“reorganisation date”, in relation to an order, means the date specified in the order as that on which one or both of a structural change and a boundary change comes into effect;\n“shadow council” means an authority (not being a local authority) which, in accordance with an order, becomes a single tier council on the reorganisation date;\n“shadow executive”, in relation to a shadow council, means the executive created by the council in accordance with the order which confers functions on the council;\n“the shadow period”, in relation to a shadow council, means the period defined as such in the order which confers functions on the council;\n“single tier council” means a local authority which on and after the reorganisation date is the sole principal authority for an area; and\n“structural change” means a change effected by an order which establishes a single tier of local government for an area.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1993/202, amended, as to England, by regulation 8 of S.I. 2001/3384."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "S.I. 2001/3384."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "S.I. 2006/246, to which there are amendments not relevant to these Regulations."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f4",
      "text": "1989 c.42, to which there are amendments to section 4 not relevant to these Regulations."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2008/1419/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T03:30:30.541106+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."
}