{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-park-authorities-england-order-1996/article-12",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-park-authorities-england-order-1996/article-12.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1996/1243",
  "legislation_title": "The National Park Authorities (England) Order 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-park-authorities-england-order-1996",
  "path": "article/12",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "12",
  "heading": "Accounts, etc.",
  "text": "(1) Subject to paragraphs (2) and (3), a National Park authority shall—\n(a) keep a fund (to be known as the general fund) to which all income of the authority shall be carried, and from which all expenditure discharging liabilities shall be met; and\n(b) keep accounts of income and expenditure of the general fund.\n(2) The provisions of paragraph (1) are without prejudice to any provision contained in any enactment or instrument requiring a National Park authority to keep—\n(a) a specific fund or funds in respect of specified income and expenditure of the authority; or\n(b) specific accounts in respect of specified receipts income and expenditure of any funds of the authority.\n(3) Nothing in paragraph (1)(a) shall be construed as requiring or authorising an authority to apply or dispose of the surplus revenue arising from any undertaking carried on by it otherwise than in accordance with any enactment or instrument applicable to the undertaking.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1996/1243/article/12",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:44:10.056917+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."
}