{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-structural-changes-finance-regulations-2008/regulation-7",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-structural-changes-finance-regulations-2008/regulation-7.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2008/3022",
  "legislation_title": "The Local Government (Structural Changes) (Finance) Regulations 2008",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-structural-changes-finance-regulations-2008",
  "path": "regulation/7",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": "Certain county councils to be billing authorities",
  "text": "(1) Paragraph (2) applies where the functions of district councils in relation to any area are transferred to a council for a county consisting of that area otherwise than by way of an order under Chapter 1 of Part 1 of the 2007 Act.\n(2) The county council—\n(a) shall, for any financial year beginning at the same time as or after that transfer, be a billing authority for the purposes of Part 1 of the 1992 Act in relation to the area;\n(b) shall not, for any such year, be a major precepting authority for those purposes.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": "prospective",
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 7 in force at 24.12.2008, see reg. 1(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "The term “major precepting authority” is defined in section 39(1) of the 1992 Act."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "coming into force",
      "affecting": "uksi/2008/3022",
      "affecting_title": "The Local Government (Structural Changes) (Finance) Regulations 2008"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2008/3022/regulation/7",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T03:21:36.515171+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."
}