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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/overview-and-scrutiny-reference-by-councillors-excluded-matters-england-order-2012/article-4",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2012/1022",
  "legislation_title": "The Overview and Scrutiny (Reference by Councillors) (Excluded Matters) (England) Order 2012",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/overview-and-scrutiny-reference-by-councillors-excluded-matters-england-order-2012",
  "path": "article/4",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Systemic failure in discharge of functions not an excluded matter",
  "text": "(1) A matter does not fall within a description in article 3(a) to (c) if it consists of an allegation that a function for which the authority is responsible has not been discharged at all or that its discharge has failed or is failing on a systemic basis.\n(2) Paragraph (1) applies notwithstanding the fact that the allegation specifies or refers to—\n(a) any matter relating to a planning decision;\n(b) any matter relating to a licensing decision; or\n(c) any matter relating to a person in respect of which that person has a right of recourse to a review or right of appeal conferred by or under any enactment.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Art. 4 in force at 4.5.2012, see art. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2012/1022/article/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T01:34:30.932441+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."
}