Local Government in Scotland Act 2003

60 Repeals and consequential amendments S

(1) The following enactments are repealed—

(a) in section 83 (general power of local authorities to incur expenditure) of the 1973 Act, subsections (1), (2), (2C), (2D) and (4) to (7) and, in subsection (3), the words “subject as aforesaid”;

(b) section 94 (capital expenses of local authorities) of that Act;

(c) section 122A(duty of local authorities to use resources efficiently) of that Act;

(d) sections 171A, 171B and 171C(promotion by local authorities of economic development of its area) of that Act;

(e) Part III (direct labour organisations) of the Local Government, Planning and Land Act 1980 (c. 65);

(f) Part I (competition in certain local authority activities) and sections 32 (direct labour organisations) and 33 (local authority companies) of and Schedule 6 to the Local Government Act 1988 (c. 9);

(g) section 31 (National Code of Local Government Conduct) of the Local Government and Housing Act 1989 (c. 42);

(h) sections 1A (permitted methods of publishing information about performance) and 8 to 11 (competition and competitive tendering) of and Schedule 1 to the Local Government Act 1992 (c. 19);

(i) in section 188 (acquisition of land by planning authority by agreement) of the Town and Country Planning (Scotland) Act 1997 (c. 8), subsection (3);

(j) in section 189 (compulsory acquisition of land by local authority) of that Act, subsection (8).

(2) In section 9A(4)(b) of the Transport Act 1968 (c. 73) (application of sections 89 to 92 of the Transport Act 1985 to Passenger Transport Executives), for the words “sections 89 to” there is substituted “ section ”.

(3) The Transport Act 1985 (c. 67) is amended as follows—

(a) in section 63(5)(b) (limitations on agreements for service subsidies), for the words “sections 89 to” there is substituted “ section ”;

(b) in section 88(1) (limitations on agreements for service subsidies), for the words “sections 89 to” there is substituted “ section ”; and

(c) sections 89 to 91(obligation on local authorities to invite tenders for subsidised transport services) are repealed.

Commencement Information

I1 S. 60 wholly in force at 1.4.2004; s. 60 not in force at Royal Assent see s. 62(2); s. 60(1)(a)(c)-(f)(h)-(j)(2)(3) in force at 1.4.2003 by S.S.I. 2003/134, art. 2(1), Sch. and s. 60(1)(g) in force at 1.5.2003 by art. 2(2) of that S.S.I.; s. 60(1)(b) in force at 1.4.2004 by S.S.I. 2004/28, art. 2(2)