{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-structural-changes-transitional-arrangements-no2-regulations-2008/regulation-32",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-structural-changes-transitional-arrangements-no2-regulations-2008/regulation-32.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2008/2867",
  "legislation_title": "The Local Government (Structural Changes) (Transitional Arrangements) (No.2) Regulations 2008",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-structural-changes-transitional-arrangements-no2-regulations-2008",
  "path": "regulation/32",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "32",
  "heading": "Honorary titles",
  "text": "(1) Subsection (1) of section 249 of the 1972 Act (honorary titles) shall have effect in relation to a principal council which is a predecessor council as if, for the words from “as past members” to the end, there were substituted “as past or serving members of the council”.\n(2) Where, by virtue of a section 7 order, a local government area is abolished on the reorganisation date, any person who, immediately before that date, is an honorary alderman or alderwoman of the predecessor council for that area shall, on that date—\n(a) where there is more than one related single tier council for that area, become an honorary alderman or alderwoman of the council (whether a related single tier council or another local authority) whose area includes the whole or the greater part of the electoral area for which the person was last returned as a councillor of the predecessor council;\n(b) in any other case, become an honorary alderman or alderwoman of the related single tier council.\n(3) In relation to a person to whom paragraph (2) applies, references in subsections (2) and (4) of section 249 of the 1972 Act which, immediately before the reorganisation date, fall to be construed as references to the predecessor council shall, on and after that date, be construed as references to the council of which that person becomes an honorary alderman or alderwoman on that date.\n(4) A person who, before the reorganisation date, has been admitted as an honorary freeman or freewoman of a local government area that is abolished by a section 7 order (an “abolished area”) shall, on that date, be treated as having been admitted as an honorary freeman or freewoman of the area which, on the reorganisation date, comprises or includes that abolished area.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in reg. 32(1) substituted (5.9.2018) by The Local Government (Structural Changes) (General) (Amendment) Regulations 2018 (S.I. 2018/930), regs. 1, 5(10)(c)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in reg. 32 inserted (5.9.2018) by The Local Government (Structural Changes) (General) (Amendment) Regulations 2018 (S.I. 2018/930), regs. 1, 5(10)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Reg. 32(4) inserted (5.9.2018) by The Local Government (Structural Changes) (General) (Amendment) Regulations 2018 (S.I. 2018/930), regs. 1, 5(10)(d)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Word in reg. 32 heading substituted (5.9.2018) by The Local Government (Structural Changes) (General) (Amendment) Regulations 2018 (S.I. 2018/930), regs. 1, 5(10)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 32 in force at 28.11.2008, see reg. 1(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2008/2867/regulation/32",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T03:22:21.760937+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."
}