<Legislation xmlns="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/namespaces/legislation" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2009/20" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/2009/20" NumberOfProvisions="457" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/namespaces/legislation http://www.legislation.gov.uk/schema/legislation.xsd" SchemaVersion="1.0" RestrictExtent="E+W+S+N.I." RestrictStartDate="2026-03-10"><ukm:Metadata xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:dct="http://purl.org/dc/terms/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:ukm="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/namespaces/metadata">
					<dc:identifier>http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2009/20/section/124</dc:identifier><dc:title>Local Democracy, Economic Development and Construction Act 2009</dc:title><dc:description>An Act to make provision for the purposes of promoting public involvement in relation to local authorities and other public authorities; to make provision about bodies representing the interests of tenants; to make provision about local freedoms and honorary titles; to make provision about the procedures of local authorities, their powers relating to insurance and the audit of entities connected with them; to establish the Local Government Boundary Commission for England and to make provision relating to local government boundary and electoral change; to make provision about local and regional development; to amend the law relating to construction contracts; and for connected purposes.</dc:description><dc:type>text</dc:type><dc:format>text/xml</dc:format><dc:language>en</dc:language><dc:publisher>Statute Law Database</dc:publisher><dc:modified>2026-04-13</dc:modified><dc:contributor>Expert Participation</dc:contributor><dct:valid>2026-03-10</dct:valid>
					
					<atom:link rel="self" href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2009/20/section/124/data.xml" type="application/xml"/><atom:link rel="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/def/navigation/resources" href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2009/20/resources" title="More Resources"/>
					
					<atom:link rel="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/def/navigation/notes" href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/2009/20/section/124/notes" title="Explanatory Notes"/><atom:link rel="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/def/navigation/notes/toc" href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2009/20/notes/contents" title="Explanatory Notes Table of Contents"/>
					
					<atom:link rel="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/def/navigation/act" href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2009/20" title="whole act"/><atom:link rel="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/def/navigation/introduction" href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2009/20/introduction" title="introduction"/>
					<atom:link rel="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/def/navigation/body" href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2009/20/body" title="body"/>
					<atom:link rel="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/def/navigation/schedules" href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2009/20/schedules" title="schedules"/>
					
										
					
					
					
					<atom:link rel="alternate" type="application/rdf+xml" href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2009/20/section/124/data.rdf" title="RDF/XML"/><atom:link rel="alternate" type="application/akn+xml" href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2009/20/section/124/data.akn" title="AKN"/><atom:link rel="alternate" type="application/xhtml+xml" href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2009/20/section/124/data.xht" title="HTML snippet"/><atom:link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2009/20/section/124/data.htm" title="Website (XHTML) Default View"/><atom:link rel="alternate" type="text/csv" href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2009/20/section/124/data.csv" title="CSV"/><atom:link rel="alternate" type="application/pdf" href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2009/20/section/124/data.pdf" title="PDF"/>
					<atom:link rel="alternate" type="application/akn+xhtml" href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2009/20/section/124/data.html" title="HTML5 snippet"/>

					
					<atom:link rel="http://purl.org/dc/terms/tableOfContents" hreflang="en" href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2009/20/contents" title="Table of Contents"/>
					
					<atom:link rel="http://purl.org/dc/terms/hasVersion" href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2009/20/section/124/enacted" title="enacted"/><atom:link rel="http://purl.org/dc/terms/hasVersion" href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2009/20/section/124/2010-01-12" title="2010-01-12"/><atom:link rel="http://purl.org/dc/terms/hasVersion" href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2009/20/section/124/2015-05-26" title="2015-05-26"/>
					
					<atom:link rel="up" href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2009/20" title="Entire legislation"/><atom:link rel="prev" href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2009/20/section/123" title="Provision; Section 123"/><atom:link rel="prevInForce" href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2009/20/section/120" title="Provision; Section 120"/><atom:link rel="next" href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2009/20/section/125" title="Provision; Section 125"/><atom:link rel="nextInForce" href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2009/20/section/138" title="Provision; Section 138"/>
					<ukm:PrimaryMetadata><ukm:DocumentClassification><ukm:DocumentCategory Value="primary"/><ukm:DocumentMainType Value="UnitedKingdomPublicGeneralAct"/><ukm:DocumentStatus Value="revised"/></ukm:DocumentClassification><ukm:Year Value="2009"/><ukm:Number Value="20"/><ukm:EnactmentDate Date="2009-11-12"/></ukm:PrimaryMetadata>
					

                    
									<ukm:Notes><ukm:Note IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/2009/20/section/124/notes" DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2009/20/section/124/notes"/><ukm:Alternatives><ukm:Alternative Date="2009-11-19" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2009/20/pdfs/ukpgaen_20090020_en.pdf" Title="Explanatory Note"/></ukm:Alternatives>       
								</ukm:Notes> 
					<ukm:CorrectionSlips><ukm:CorrectionSlip URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2009/20/pdfs/ukpgacs_20090020_en.pdf" Date="2010-10-15" Title="Correction Slip" Size="14677"/></ukm:CorrectionSlips><ukm:Alternatives>
      <ukm:Alternative Date="2009-11-13" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2009/20/pdfs/ukpga_20090020_en.pdf" Title="Print Version"/>
   </ukm:Alternatives>
					
					<ukm:Statistics>
									<ukm:TotalParagraphs Value="465"/>
									<ukm:BodyParagraphs Value="202"/>
									<ukm:ScheduleParagraphs Value="263"/>
									<ukm:AttachmentParagraphs Value="0"/>
									<ukm:TotalImages Value="0"/>
								</ukm:Statistics>
				</ukm:Metadata><Primary><Body DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2009/20/body" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/2009/20/body" NumberOfProvisions="202" RestrictExtent="E+W" RestrictStartDate="2026-03-10"><Part DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2009/20/part/7" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/2009/20/part/7" NumberOfProvisions="17" id="part-7" RestrictExtent="E+W" Status="Repealed" RestrictStartDate="2015-05-26"><Number><CommentaryRef Ref="key-f7c6dc92e454487784eeb67a85d976a6"/><Strong>Part 7</Strong></Number><Title>Multi-area agreements</Title><Pblock DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2009/20/part/7/crossheading/preparation-and-approval-of-multiarea-agreements" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/2009/20/part/7/crossheading/preparation-and-approval-of-multiarea-agreements" NumberOfProvisions="6" id="part-7-crossheading-preparation-and-approval-of-multiarea-agreements" Status="Repealed" Match="false" RestrictStartDate="2015-05-26"><Title><CommentaryRef Ref="key-f7c6dc92e454487784eeb67a85d976a6"/><Emphasis>Preparation and approval of multi-area agreements</Emphasis></Title><P1group Status="Repealed" Match="false" RestrictStartDate="2015-05-26"><Title>Proposal for multi-area agreement</Title><P1 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2009/20/section/124" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/2009/20/section/124" id="section-124"><Pnumber PuncAfter=""><CommentaryRef Ref="key-f7c6dc92e454487784eeb67a85d976a6"/>124</Pnumber><P1para><Text>. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .</Text></P1para></P1></P1group></Pblock></Part></Body></Primary><Commentaries><Commentary id="key-f7c6dc92e454487784eeb67a85d976a6" Type="F"><Para><Text><CitationSubRef id="c180irj83-00005" SectionRef="part-7" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/2009/20/part/7">Pt. 7</CitationSubRef> omitted (26.5.2015) by virtue of <Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/2015/20" id="c180irj83-00006" Class="UnitedKingdomPublicGeneralAct" Year="2015" Number="20" Title="Deregulation Act 2015">Deregulation Act 2015 (c. 20)</Citation>, <CitationSubRef id="c180irj83-00007" CitationRef="c180irj83-00006" SectionRef="section-102-1" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/2015/20/section/102/1" Operative="true">ss. 102(1)</CitationSubRef>, <CitationSubRef id="c180irj83-00008" CitationRef="c180irj83-00006" SectionRef="section-115-3-k" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/2015/20/section/115/3/k">115(3)(k)</CitationSubRef></Text></Para></Commentary></Commentaries></Legislation>