{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-structural-changes-further-transitional-arrangements-and-staffing-regulations-2009/regulation-2",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2009/486",
  "legislation_title": "The Local Government (Structural Changes) (Further Transitional Arrangements and Staffing) Regulations 2009",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-structural-changes-further-transitional-arrangements-and-staffing-regulations-2009",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "(1) In these Regulations—\n“the 2000 Act” means the Local Government Act 2000;\n“the 2003 Act” means the Local Government Act 2003;\n“the 2007 Act” means the Local Government and Public Involvement in Health Act 2007;\n“predecessor council” means a local authority which, by or in consequence of an order under section 7 of the 2007 Act, will cease to exist on the reorganisation date;\n“reorganisation date”, means the date specified in an order under section 7 of the 2007 Act as that on which a structural change comes into effect;\n“single tier council” means a local authority which on and after the reorganisation date is the sole principal authority for an area.\n(2) For the purposes of these Regulations—\n(a) a single tier council and a predecessor council are related if on the reorganisation date the area of the single tier council includes that of the predecessor council;\n(b) where on the reorganisation date the area of a predecessor council comprises the areas of two or more single tier councils taken together, both or all of those single tier councils and the predecessor council are related.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "2000 c.22"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "2003 c.26."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2009/486/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T03:16:30.848135+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."
}