{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-transitional-financial-provisions-scotland-order-1996/article-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-transitional-financial-provisions-scotland-order-1996/article-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1996/682",
  "legislation_title": "The Local Government (Transitional Financial Provisions) (Scotland) Order 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-transitional-financial-provisions-scotland-order-1996",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "In this Order, except where the context otherwise requires—\n“the 1968 Act” means the Social Work (Scotland) Act 1968;\n“the 1973 Act” means the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973;\n“the 1992 Act” means the Local Government Finance Act 1992;\n“the 1994 Act” means the Local Government etc. (Scotland) Act 1994;\n“accounting authority” means—\n(a) in relation to a disaggregating authority, the council specified in column 2 of Schedule 1 to this Order opposite the name of the disaggregating authority in question (as specified in column 1 of that Schedule); and\n(b) in relation to any other demitting authority, their successor authority;\n“the Administration” shall have the same meaning as in section 128(1) of the 1994 Act;\n“council” means a council constituted under section 2 of the 1994 Act;\n“demitting authority” means an authority specified in column 1 of either Schedule 1 or Schedule 2 to this Order;\n“disaggregating authority” means an authority specified in column 1 of Schedule 1 to this Order;\n“functions” includes powers and duties;\n“housing revenue account” means an account required to be kept under section 203 of the Housing (Scotland) Act 1987;\n“joint board” shall have the same meaning as in section 235(1) of the 1973 Act;\n“the Principal Reporter” shall have the same meaning as in section 127(1) of the 1994 Act;\n“reporter” means a reporter appointed under section 36(1) of the 1968 Act;\n“successor authority” means—\n(a) in relation to a disaggregating authority, a council any part of the area of which is within the area of the disaggregating authority in question; and\n(b) in relation to a demitting authority specified in column 1 of Schedule 2 to this Order, the authority specified in column 2 of that Schedule opposite the name of the demitting authority in question;\n“the transfer date” means 1st April 1996.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1968 c. 49."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1973 c. 65."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "1992 c. 14."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f4",
      "text": "1987 c. 26."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f5",
      "text": "Section 36(1) was amended by the 1973 Act, Schedule 29 and is repealed (with effect from 1st April 1996) by virtue of the 1994 Act, Schedule 14, and S.I. 1996/323."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1996/682/article/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:48:49.493086+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."
}