{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/somerset-structural-changes-order-2022/article-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/somerset-structural-changes-order-2022/article-3.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2022/329",
  "legislation_title": "The Somerset (Structural Changes) Order 2022",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/somerset-structural-changes-order-2022",
  "path": "article/3",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Single tier of local government in Somerset",
  "text": "(1) On or after 1st April 2023 the Somerset Council is the sole principal authority for Somerset.\n(2) For the purposes of enactments relating to local government, there shall be a new district, whose area shall be co-terminous with Somerset; and the name of that new district is Somerset.\n(3) If the Somerset County Council passes a resolution that the word “county” should be omitted from its name, its name shall be “the Somerset Council” and subsection (3) of section 2 of the 1972 Act (constitution of principal counties in England) shall cease to apply so far as it prescribes the name of that council.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2022/329/article/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T22:02:13.828953+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."
}