{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/wages-councils-meetings-and-procedure-regulations-1987/regulation-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/wages-councils-meetings-and-procedure-regulations-1987/regulation-1.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1987/862",
  "legislation_title": "The Wages Councils (Meetings and Procedure) Regulations 1987",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/wages-councils-meetings-and-procedure-regulations-1987",
  "path": "regulation/1",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Citation, commencement and interpretation",
  "text": "(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Wages Councils (Meetings and Procedure) Regulations 1987 and shall come into force on 4th June 1987.\n(2) In these Regulations —\n“member” means a person for the time being appointed to be a member of a wages council;\n“representative member” means a member appointed to represent employers or workers;\n“independent member” means a member appointed as being an independent person;\n“chairman” means the independent member acting as chairman of any meeting of a wages council by virtue of an appointment made by the Secretary of State under paragraph 3 of Schedule 2 to the Wages Act 1986.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1987/862/regulation/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T16:26:45.813713+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."
}