{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-housing-authorities-prescribed-principles-for-allocation-schemes-wales-regulations-1997/regulation-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-housing-authorities-prescribed-principles-for-allocation-schemes-wales-regulations-1997/regulation-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1997/45",
  "legislation_title": "The Local Housing Authorities (Prescribed Principles for Allocation Schemes) (Wales) Regulations 1997",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-housing-authorities-prescribed-principles-for-allocation-schemes-wales-regulations-1997",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "In these Regulations—\n“the Act” means the Housing Act 1996;\n“allocation decision” means a decision to allocate housing accommodation;\n“allocation scheme” means an allocation scheme within the meaning of section 167(1) of the Act;\n“authority” means a Welsh local housing authority;\n“delegation arrangements” means arrangements made under section 101(1) or (2) of the Local Government Act 1972 for the discharge of an authority’s function of making allocation decisions;\n“officer delegation arrangements” means delegation arrangements which arrange for the discharge (in whole or in part) of an authority’s function of making allocation decisions, by an officer or a description of officers of the authority; and\n“qualifying person”, in relation to an authority, means a person who is qualified to be allocated housing accommodation by that authority.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1972 c. 70."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1997/45/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:27:56.011085+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."
}