{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/surrey-structural-changes-order-2026/article-16",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/surrey-structural-changes-order-2026/article-16.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2026/264",
  "legislation_title": "The Surrey (Structural Changes) Order 2026",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/surrey-structural-changes-order-2026",
  "path": "article/16",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "16",
  "heading": "General transitional duties of the county council, the East Surrey councils and the West Surrey councils",
  "text": "(1) The county council, each of the East Surrey councils and each of the West Surrey councils must—\n(a) consult and co-operate with one another and with the shadow authorities in order to secure the economic, effective, efficient and timely transfer of the county council’s and those councils’ functions, property, rights and liabilities; and\n(b) generally, exercise their functions so as to further the purposes of this Order.\n(2) A relevant authority must provide such information relating to its functions as any other relevant authority may reasonably request for the purpose of giving effect to this Order.\n(3) A relevant authority must, on request by a person authorised by another relevant authority in that behalf, at all reasonable times allow that person—\n(a) to inspect any record belonging to or under the control of the authority to whom the request is made and relating to the authority or its functions; and\n(b) to take, or be supplied with, a copy of any such record or part of it.\n(4) A relevant authority to whom a request is made under paragraph (3) may, before complying with the request, require the person making the request to produce evidence of the authorisation given by the other relevant authority.\n(5) The rights conferred by paragraph (3) include the right to require any record which is not in legible form to be made available in legible form so that the authorised person may inspect or copy it or be supplied with copies.\n(6) The information referred to in paragraph (2) must, in particular, include any information necessary for the exercise during the shadow period of any of the functions of a shadow authority.\n(7) In this article “relevant authority” means—\n(a) in the case of East Surrey—\n(i) the county council;\n(ii) the East Surrey councils;\n(iii) the East Surrey shadow authority;\n(b) in the case of West Surrey—\n(i) the county council;\n(ii) the West Surrey councils;\n(iii) the West Surrey shadow authority.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2026/264/article/16",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T21:04:33.038771+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."
}