{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/reading-borough-council-act-2013/section-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/reading-borough-council-act-2013/section-2.json",
  "legislation": "ukla/2013/4",
  "legislation_title": "Reading Borough Council Act 2013",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/reading-borough-council-act-2013",
  "path": "section/2",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "In this Act—\n“the 1982 Act” means the Local Government (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1982;\n“authorised officer” means an officer of the council authorised by the council in writing in compliance with section 14(1) to act for the purposes of this Act;\n“the borough” means the borough of Reading;\n“community support officer” means a person designated by the chief officer of the Thames Valley police force as a community support officer under section 38 of the Police Reform Act 2002 (police powers for police authority employees);\n“the council” means the Reading Borough Council;\n“proper officer” has the same meaning as in section 270(3) of the Local Government Act 1972;\n“a relevant offence” means an offence—\n(a) under paragraph 10 of Schedule 4 to the 1982 Act; or\n(b) of aiding, abetting, counselling or procuring the commission of an offence under that paragraph, committed on or after the day on which this Act came into force;\n“street” has the same meaning as in Schedule 4 to the 1982 Act;\n“ticket” includes any document, token or other item required for the purposes of effecting entry to an entertainment or sporting event.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukla/2013/4/section/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T14:44:56.131211+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."
}