{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-structural-changes-further-transitional-arrangements-and-staffing-regulations-2009/regulation-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-structural-changes-further-transitional-arrangements-and-staffing-regulations-2009/regulation-4.json",
  "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/4",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Preparation of reports and plans: end of exemption",
  "text": "(1) This regulation applies where a single tier council is under a duty to prepare and publish—\n(a) a home energy conservation report under section 2 of the Home Energy Conservation Act 1995;\n(b) a rights of way improvement plan under section 60 of the Countryside and Rights of Way Act 2000; or\n(c) an air quality action plan under section 84(2)(b) of the Environment Act 1995,\nwhich any one of its related predecessor councils did not prepare and publish because, by virtue of the Local Authorities’ Plans and Strategies (Disapplication) (England) Order 2005, it was not required to do so.\n(2) Where the duty arises in relation to a home energy conservation report or an air quality action plan, the single tier council must prepare and publish the report or plan for the whole of its area within 12 months of the reorganisation date.\n(3) Where the duty arises in relation to a rights of way improvement plan, the single tier council must prepare and publish the plan for the whole of its area within 24 months of the reorganisation date.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "2000 c.37."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1995 c.25."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "S.I. 2005/157."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "word substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2018/930",
      "affecting_title": "The Local Government (Structural Changes) (General) (Amendment) Regulations 2018"
    },
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2018/930",
      "affecting_title": "The Local Government (Structural Changes) (General) (Amendment) Regulations 2018"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2009/486/regulation/4",
    "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."
}