1997 No. 522
LOCAL GOVERNMENT
The Local Government (Competition in Functional Work) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1997
Made 4th December 1997
Coming into operation 31st January 1998

The Department of the Environment, in exercise of the powers conferred on it by Article 7(3) of the Local Government (Miscellaneous Provisions) (Northern Ireland) Order 1992 and of all other powers enabling it in that behalf, hereby makes the following regulations:
S.I. 1992/810 (N.I. 6). See Article 2(2) and (3)—definition of “Department”, “regulations” and “the Ministry” in section 148(1) of the principal Act; see also S.R. & O (N.I.) 1973 No. 504 Article 7(1) and S.I. 1976/424 (N.I. 6) Article 3

1 Citation and commencement
These regulations may be cited as the Local Government (Competition in Functional Work) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1997 and shall come into operation on 31st January 1998.

2 Amendment to provisions relating to specified dates
In Column 2 of the Schedule to the Local Government (Competition in Functional Work) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1995, for “1st April 1998”, wherever it appears, there shall be substituted “1st November 1998”.
S.R. 1995 No. 362
Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department of the Environment on
R. McMinnis Assistant Secretary 4th December 1997.

(This note is not part of the Regulation.)
The Local Government (Competition in Functional Work) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1995 describe for the purposes of Article 7(3) of the Local Government (Miscellaneous Provisions) (Northern Ireland) Order 1992 (“the Order”) the nature of the functional work (as defined in Article 3(1)) which the councils specified in the schedule may not carry out on or after the dates specified in the schedule unless certain conditions (designed to ensure competition) are fulfilled (regulation 2).
These regulations extend the date specified for the district council services of Managing sports and leisure facilities and Construction and maintenance work from 1st April 1998 to 1st November 1998.