{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-park-authorities-england-order-1996/schedule-2/paragraph-8",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-park-authorities-england-order-1996/schedule-2/paragraph-8.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": "schedule/2/paragraph/8",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": "Quorum",
  "text": "Subject to the provisions of paragraph 45 of Schedule 12 to the 1972 Act, no business shall be transacted at a meeting of the Authority unless—\n(a) at least one third of the whole number of members of the Authority are present; and\n(b) of those present at least one is a local authority member and at least one a Secretary of State member.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Paragraph 45 in Part VI of Schedule 12 to the 1972 Act is applied to a National Park Authority by virtue of paragraph 12(1)(a) of Schedule 7 to the 1995 Act."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1996/1243/schedule/2/paragraph/8",
    "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."
}