Local Government in Scotland Act 2003

Part 1Best value and accountability

Duty to secure best value

1Local authorities' duty to secure best value

2Considerations bearing on performance of duty under section 1

3Action by Accounts Commission following report by Controller of Audit

4Hearings under section 3 above

5Action by local authorities on receipt of findings

Other provisions about best value

6Accounts Commission’s studies and recommendations to include aspects of securing best value

Relaxation of rules about contracts and supply of goods and services

7Local authority contracts: relaxation of exclusion of non-commercial considerations

8Relaxation of restrictions on supply of goods and services etc. by local authorities

9Special provision for local authority contracts for construction of buildings or works

10Trading operations and accounts

Disposal of land for less than full value

11Disposal of land by local authorities for less than full value

Accounts, finance and performance accountability

12Proper accounting practices

13Publication by local authorities of information about finance and performance

14Application of this Part to other bodies

Part 2Community planning

15Community planning

16Community planning: further provision

17Reports and information

19Establishment of corporate bodies to co-ordinate and further community planning etc.

Part 3Power to advance well-being

20Power to advance well-being

21Guidance on exercise of power under section 20

22Limits on power under section 20

Part 4Enforcement and scrutiny

23Enforcement: preliminary notice

24Enforcement directions

25Scrutiny of local authorities' police and fire functions

26Excess of power: preliminary notice

27Excess of power: enforcement

Part 5Rating and council tax

28Rate relief on former agricultural premises etc.

29Rate relief for food stores in rural settlements

30Derating of automatic telling machine sites

31Derating of certain buildings used in connection with agricultural operations

32Power to combine lands and heritages situated in more than one valuation area

33Council tax: discount for unoccupied dwellings

Part 6Waste management

34Integrated waste management plans

35Capital expenditure limits

36Imposition of capital expenditure limits

37Capital grants

38Scottish Ministers' power to pay off loans made to local authorities

39Provisions supplementary to sections 35 to 38

40Power of local authorities to invest money

41Establishment of local authority funds other than general fund: setting of council tax

Part 8Miscellaneous

42Paid time off for councillors not to be political donation

43Remote participation in and calling of local authority meetings

44Travel concessions

45Power to charge for vacant places on school buses etc.

46Power to provide funds for speed cameras etc.

47Power to provide funds for private water supplies

48Delegation of Strathclyde Passenger Transport Authority functions to officials

49Parliamentary procedure for regulations about vehicles used as taxis and private hire cars

50Suspension of requirement to advertise principal teacher posts

51Arrangements and agreements with bodies corporate

52Guidance on contractual matters

53Qualification of and assistance for Accounts Commission auditors

54Accounts Commission’s and auditor’s powers to obtain information from persons other than local authorities etc.

55Auditor’s duty in relation to aspects of best value and community planning

56Extension of Controller of Audit’s reporting functions to best value and community planning: amendment of section 102 of 1973 Act

57Power to modify enactments

58Ancillary provision

59Equal opportunities

60Repeals and consequential amendments

62Short title and commencement

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Local Government in Scotland Act 2003

2003 asp 1

The Bill for this Act of the Scottish Parliament was passed by the Parliament on 8th January 2003 and received Royal Assent on 11th February 2003

An Act of the Scottish Parliament to provide anew about the way in which local authorities discharge their functions and about the local provision of certain public services; to give local authorities power to do things which they consider will advance well-being; to provide exemptions and reliefs from non-domestic rates in relation to certain lands and heritages; to confer power on the Scottish Ministers to combine certain lands and heritages for the purposes of assessing rateable value; to require local authorities to prepare, and endeavour to implement, a plan relating to the carrying out of their waste disposal and collection functions; to make new provision about the capital expenditure of those authorities and about the making of capital grants to them; to make some miscellaneous provisions connected with the functions of local authorities; and for connected purposes.