{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-structural-changes-transfer-of-functions-property-rights-and-liabilities-regulations-2008/regulation-7",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-structural-changes-transfer-of-functions-property-rights-and-liabilities-regulations-2008/regulation-7.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/7",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": "Transfers where only one successor council",
  "text": "If a section 7 order provides for—\n(a) the winding up and dissolution of two or more predecessor councils; and\n(b) the establishment of a single tier of local government for an area which consists of the entirety of the areas of both or all of the predecessor councils,\nall property, rights and liabilities of the predecessor councils shall on the reorganisation date vest in, and transfer to, the successor council.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 7 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/7",
    "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."
}