The Local Government Finance (Repeals, Savings and Consequential Amendments) Order 1990

The Acquisition of Land Act 1981 (c. 67)

23.  In section 7(1)(1), for the definition of “local authority”, there shall be substituted the following definition–

• ““local authority” means–

  (a)

  a charging authority, a precepting authority, a combined police authority or a combined fire authority, as defined in section 144 of the Local Government Finance Act 1988;

  (b)

  a levying body within the meaning of section 74 of that Act;

  (c)

  a body as regards which section 75 of that Act applies;

  (d)

  any joint board or joint committee if all the constituent authorities are such authorities as are described in paragraphs (a) to (c); and

  (e)

  the Honourable Society of the Inner Temple or the Honourable Society of the Middle Temple,”.

(1)

The definition of “local authority” was amended by the Water Act 1989 (c. 15), Schedule 27, Part I.