{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-structural-changes-transfer-of-functions-property-rights-and-liabilities-regulations-2008/regulation-16",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-structural-changes-transfer-of-functions-property-rights-and-liabilities-regulations-2008/regulation-16.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2008/2176",
  "legislation_title": "The Local Government (Structural Changes) (Transfer of Functions, Property, Rights and Liabilities) Regulations 2008",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-structural-changes-transfer-of-functions-property-rights-and-liabilities-regulations-2008",
  "path": "regulation/16",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "16",
  "heading": "Rights of access to records",
  "text": "(1) Where—\n(a) records of a predecessor council are vested by virtue of these Regulations or any other relevant instrument in any body; and\n(b) the records relate to—\n(i) property, rights or liabilities which are vested by virtue of these Regulations in another body; or\n(ii) any function which is exercisable, on and after the reorganisation date, by such other body,\nthat other body shall be entitled during normal office hours, through any person authorised in that behalf, to inspect those records and to take, or be supplied with, copies of those records or of any part of them.\n(2) The rights conferred by paragraph (1) include the right to require any record which is not in legible form to be made available in legible form for the purposes of inspection or copying or being supplied with copies.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 16 in force at 8.9.2008, see reg. 1(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2008/2176/regulation/16",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-12T03:35:10.941338+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."
}