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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/relevant-authorities-standards-committee-regulations-2001/regulation-5",
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  "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/5",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Transitional provision for independent members",
  "text": "Where an authority has before the date on which these Regulations come into force established a committee, which has among its functions that of promoting and maintaining high standards of conduct by the members and co-opted members of the authority, and which includes any person who is not a member or officer of that or any other relevant authority—\n(a) that committee may be treated by the authority as if it were a standards committee for the purposes of the Act;\n(b) subject to sub-paragraph (c) these Regulations shall apply to that committee; and\n(c) regulation 4 shall not apply to that committee until the end of the period of two years beginning with the date on which these Regulations come into force.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2001/2812/regulation/5",
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  },
  "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."
}