The Local Authorities (Standing Orders) (England) Regulations 2001

Interpretation

2.  In these Regulations—

“the 1989 Act” means the Local Government and Housing Act 1989;

“the 2000 Act” means the Local Government Act 2000(1);

“the 1993 Regulations” means the Local Authorities (Standing Orders) Regulations 1993(2);

“alternative arrangements” has the same meaning as in Part II of the 2000 Act (arrangements with respect to executives etc.);

“chief finance officer” means the officer having responsibility, for the purposes of—

(a)

section 151 of the Local Government Act 1972(3) (financial administration); or

(b)

section 6 of the 1989 Act (officer responsible for financial administration of certain authorities),

for the administration of the local authority’s financial affairs;

“council manager” has the same meaning as in section 11(4)(b) of the 2000 Act;

“disciplinary action” in relation to a member of staff of a local authority means any action occasioned by alleged misconduct which, if proved, would, according to the usual practice of the authority, be recorded on the member of staff’s personal file, and includes any proposal for dismissal of a member of staff for any reason other than redundancy, permanent ill-health or infirmity of mind or body, but does not include failure to renew a contract of employment for a fixed term unless the authority has undertaken to renew such a contract;

“elected mayor”, “executive”, “executive arrangements” and “executive leader” have the same meaning as in Part II of the 2000 Act;

“head of the authority’s paid service” means the officer designated under section 4(1) of the 1989 Act (designation and reports of head of paid service);

“local authority” means—

(a)

a relevant authority;

(b)

the Common Council of the City of London in its capacity as a local authority, police authority or port health authority; or

(c)

the Council of the Isles of Scilly;

“member of staff” means a person appointed to or holding a paid office or employment;

“monitoring officer” means the officer designated under section 5(1) of the 1989 Act(4) (designation and reports of monitoring officer);

“plan or strategy” means—

(a)

a plan or strategy of a description specified in column (1) of the table in Schedule 3 to the Local Authorities (Functions and Responsibilities) (England) Regulations 2000(5) (functions not to be the sole responsibility of an authority’s executive), as amended from time to time;

(b)

a plan or strategy for the control of a relevant authority’s borrowing or capital expenditure; or

(c)

any other plan or strategy whose adoption or approval is, by virtue of regulation 5(1) of the Local Authorities (Functions and Responsibilities) (England) Regulations 2000 (discharge of executive functions by authorities) as amended from time to time, a matter for determination by a relevant authority;

“relevant authority” means a county council, a district council or a London borough council; and

“working day” means any day which is not a Saturday, a Sunday, Christmas Eve, Christmas Day, Maundy Thursday, Good Friday, a bank holiday in England or a day appointed for public thanksgiving or mourning (and “bank holiday” means a day to be observed as such under section 1 of and Schedule 1 to the Banking and Financial Dealings Act 1971(6)).

(1)

2000 c. 22.

(2)

S.I. 1993/202.

(3)

1972 c. 70.

(4)

Subsection (1) of section 5 was amended by paragraph 35 of Schedule 4 to the Police and Magistrates' Courts Act 1994 (c. 29), paragraph 1 of Schedule 7 to the Police Act 1996 (c. 16), paragraph 62 of Schedule 27 to the Greater London Authority Act 1999 (c. 29) and paragraph 24 of Schedule 5 to the 2000 Act.

(5)

S.I. 2000/2853; amended by S.I. 2001/2212.

(6)

1971 c. 80.