{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/relevant-authorities-standards-committee-regulations-2001/regulation-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/relevant-authorities-standards-committee-regulations-2001/regulation-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2001/2812",
  "legislation_title": "The Relevant Authorities (Standards Committee) Regulations 2001",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/relevant-authorities-standards-committee-regulations-2001",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "In these Regulations—\n“the 1972 Act” means the Local Government Act 1972;\n“the Act” means the Local Government Act 2000;\n“independent member” means a person appointed to a standards committee, or sub-committee of the standards committee, of an authority under section 53(4)(b) or 55(7)(a) of the Act;\n“partner” means a member of a couple who live together;\n“relative” means a spouse, partner, parent, parent-in-law, son, daughter, step-son, step-daughter, brother, sister, grandparent, grandchild, uncle, aunt, nephew, niece, or the spouse or partner of any of the preceding persons; and\n“responsible authority” means a district council or unitary county council which has functions in relation to the parish councils for which it is responsible under section 55(12) of the Act.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1972 c. 70."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2001/2812/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T07:31:04.878678+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."
}