# The Local Government (Structural Changes) (Further Transitional Arrangements and Staffing) Regulations 2009, Regulation 3: Continuity


(1) In this regulation, “the 2008 Regulations” means the Local Government (Structural Changes) (Transitional Arrangements) (No.2) Regulations 2008.
(2) Regulation 4 of the 2008 Regulations (continuity) shall not apply to—
(a) the categorisation of a predecessor council under section 99(4) of the 2003 Act (categorisation of English local authorities by reference to performance); or
(b) anything which a predecessor council is entitled to do or is exempted from doing by virtue of its categorisation.
(3) Nothing in paragraph (2) affects an entitlement or exemption of a single tier council in right of its own categorisation, or as otherwise provided in this Part or in other regulations under section 14 of the 2007 Act.
(4) A home energy conservation report prepared under section 2 of the Home Energy Conservation Act 1995 shall be treated for the purposes of regulation 14 of the 2008 Regulations (continuity in relation to other plans, schemes, statements and strategies) as if it were a plan to which paragraph (1) of that regulation applies.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2009/486/regulation/3 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-structural-changes-further-transitional-arrangements-and-staffing-regulations-2009/regulation-3
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