The Local Government Residuary Body (England) Order 1995

Interpretation

19.  In this Part—

• “the 1992 Act”means the Local Government Finance Act 1992(1);

• “billing authority”and “major precepting authority”have the same meanings as in the 1992 Act;

• “central expenditure”means expenditure of the Residuary Body other than relevant expenditure;

• “relevant authority”means an abolished authority any of whose property, rights or liabilities (or related functions) are transferred to the Residuary Body by a relevant instrument;

• “relevant area”, in relation to a successor authority, means the area in relation to which that authority, on and after the abolition date, exercises functions which immediately before that date were exercisable by an abolished authority;

• “relevant expenditure”means the expenditure of the Residuary Body in connection with all the property, rights or liabilities (or related functions) of abolished authorities transferred to it by relevant instruments; and

• “successor authority”, in relation to a relevant authority, means—

  (a)

  where an order gives effect to a structural change, a principal council to which any functions of the relevant authority are transferred on the abolition date; and

  (b)

  where an order gives effect to a boundary change, a principal council whose area, on and after that date, includes an area which, before that date, is the whole or any part of the area of the relevant authority.

(1)

1992 c. 14.