{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-and-magistrates-courts-act-1994/section-31",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-and-magistrates-courts-act-1994/section-31.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1994/29",
  "legislation_title": "Police and Magistrates’ Courts Act 1994",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-and-magistrates-courts-act-1994",
  "path": "section/31",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "31",
  "heading": "Financial administration.",
  "text": "In section 111 of the Local Government Finance Act 1988, in subsection (2) (definition of “relevant authority” for the purposes of provisions regulating financial administration) for paragraph (e) there shall be substituted—\n“(e) a police authority established under section 3 of the Police Act 1964,”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "1988 c. 41."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M2",
      "text": "1964 c. 48."
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 31 wholly in force at 1.4.1995; s. 31 not in force at Royal Assent see s. 94(1); s. 31 in force for certain purposes at 1.10.1994 by S.I. 1994/2025, art. 6(1)(2)(d)(3)-(6); s. 31 in force at 1.4.1995 insofar as not already in force by S.I. 1994/3262, art. 4(1), Sch. (with transitional provisions in art. 4(2)) (as amended (14.3.1995) by S.I. 1995/246, art. 2(3))"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1994/29/section/31",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:33:47.960485+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."
}