for a purpose for which they are, either unconditionally or subject to any limitation or to the satisfaction of any condition, authorised or required to make any payment by or by virtue of any other enactment; nor

unless the direct benefit accruing to their area or any part of it or to all or some of the inhabitants of their area will be commensurate with the expenditure to be incurred.

by virtue of paragraph (a) of subsection (1) above, a local authority are prohibited from incurring expenditure for a particular purpose, and

the power or duty of the authority to incur expenditure for that purpose is in any respect limited or conditional (whether by being restricted to a particular group of persons or in any other way),

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the funds of any charitable body in furtherance of its work in the United Kingdom; or

the funds of any body which provides any public service (whether to the public as a whole or to any section of it) in the United Kingdom otherwise than for the purposes of gain; or

any fund which is raised in connection with a particular event directly affecting persons resident in the United Kingdom on behalf of whom a public appeal for contributions has been made by the Lord Mayor of London or the chairman of a principal council or by a committee of which the Lord Mayor of London or the chairman of a principal council is a member or by such a person or body as is referred to in section 83(3)(c) of the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973.

such sum as is for the time being appropriate to the authority under F4Schedule 12B to this Act , by

the relevant population of the authority’s area.

the sum appropriate to a county council or the council of a non-metropolitan district is £2.50;

the sum appropriate to a metropolitan district council, a London borough council or the Common Council is £5.00; and

the sum appropriate to a parish or community council is £3.50.

the amount of any expenditure which forms part of the authority’s gross expenditure for that year under this section and in respect of which any grant has been or is to be paid under any enactment by a Minister of the Crown, within the meaning of the Ministers of the Crown Act 1975 (whether or not the grant covers the whole of the expenditure);

the amount of any repayment in that year of the principal of a loan for the purpose of financing expenditure under this section in any year;

so much of any amount raised by public subscription as is spent in that year for a purpose for which the authority are authorised by this section to incur expenditure;

any grant received by the authority for that year out of the European Regional Development Fund or the Social Fund of the European Economic Community, in so far as the grant is in respect of an activity in relation to which the authority incurred expenditure in that year under this section;

the amount of any repayment in that year of a loan under this section made by the authority in any year; and

in relation to England, a county council, a district council, a London borough council, the Common Council or a parish council,

in relation to Wales, a county council, a county borough council or a community council.

to a voluntary organisation, as defined in subsection (2D) of section 137 above, or

to a body or fund falling within subsection (3) of that section,

any reference to the amount of the assistance is a reference to the amount of money granted or lent by the local authority or borrowed in reliance on the local authority’s guarantee; and

any reference to the date when the assistance is provided is a reference to the date on which the grant or loan is made or, as the case may be, on which the guarantee is entered into.

incur such expenditure as they consider necessary in taking action themselves (either alone or jointly with any other person or body and either in their area or elsewhere in or outside the United Kingdom) which is calculated to avert, alleviate or eradicate in their area or among its inhabitants the effects or potential effects of the event; and

make grants or loans to other persons or bodies on conditions determined by the council in respect of any such action taken by those persons or bodies.

would involve destruction of or danger to life or property, and

would be likely to affect the whole or part of their area,

any drainage or other works in any part of a main river, F14within the meaning of Part IV ’of the Water Resources Act 1991, or of any other watercourse which is treated for the purposes of any of the provisions of that Act as part of a main river, or

any works which local authorities have power to execute under F14 sections 14 to 17, 62(2) and (3) and 66 of the Land Drainage Act 1991,

for the purpose of discharging any of their functions, gifts of property, whether real or personal, made for that purpose; or

for the benefit of the inhabitants of their area or of some part of it, gifts made for that purpose;

section 22 of the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000;

any relevant order under that section; and

Schedule 2 to that Act.

a board constituted in pursuance of F25section 2 of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990. . .;

the Common Council of the City of London; and

the Council of the Isles of Scilly; and

in relation to a county council, a probation committee for a probation area wholly or partly within the county; and

in relation to Greater London, a probation committee for a probation area wholly or partly within an outer London borough (within the meaning of section 1 of the 1963 Act); and

subsections (1) and (2)(a) above shall have effect as if they referred to a principal council; and

subsection (2)(a) above shall have effect as if it referred to the area of the principal council.

contracts of permanent health insurance; and

contracts of accident insurance.

section 22 of the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000;

any relevant order under that section; and

Schedule 2 to that Act.

as if any reference to a council were a reference to a principal council; and

as if any reference to a county were a reference to a principal area.

arrange for the publication within their area of information F38relating to the functions of the authority; and

arrange for the delivery of lectures and addresses and the holding of discussions on such matters; and

arrange for the display of pictures, cinematograph films or models or the holding of exhibitions relating to such matters; and

prepare, or join in or contribute to the cost of the preparation of, pictures, films, models or exhibitions to be displayed or held as aforesaid.

information and advice concerning those individuals’ rights and obligations; and

assistance, either by the making or receiving of communications or by providing representation to or before any person or body, in asserting those rights or fulfilling those obligations.

of any association of local authorities formed (whether inside or outside the United Kingdom) for the purpose of consultation as to the common interests of those authorities and the discussion of matters relating to local government, or

of any association of officers or members of local authorities which was so formed.

encourage persons, by advertisement or otherwise, to visit their area for recreation, for health purposes, or to hold conferences, trade fairs and exhibitions in their area; and

provide, or encourage any other person or body to provide, facilities for F41. . ., conferences, trade fairs and exhibitions or improve, or encourage any other person or body to improve, any existing facilities for those purposes.

the provision of an entertainment of any nature or of facilities for dancing;

the provision of a theatre, concert hall, dance hall or other premises suitable for the giving of entertainments or the holding of dances;

the maintenance of a band or orchestra;

the development and improvement of the knowledge, understanding and practice of the arts and the crafts which serve the arts;

any purpose incidental to the matters aforesaid, including the provision of refreshments or programmes and the advertising of any entertainment given or dance or exhibition of arts or crafts held by them.

may for the purposes therein specified enclose or set apart any part of a park or pleasure ground belonging to the authority or under their control;

may permit any theatre, concert hall, dance hall or other premises provided by them for the purposes of subsection (1) above and any part of a park or pleasure ground enclosed or set apart as aforesaid to be used by any other person, on such terms as to payment or otherwise as the authority think fit, and may authorise that other person to make charges for admission thereto;

may themselves make charges for admission to any entertainment given or dance or exhibition of arts or crafts held by them and for any refreshment or programmes supplied thereat.

if the name of the authority is changed, then at the request of the authority and on production of a statutory declaration by the proper officer of the authority specifying the securities and verifying the change of name and identity of the authority, the company shall enter the securities in the new name of the local authority in like manner as if the securities had been transferred to the authority under that name;

if by virtue of anything done under any provision of this Act or the 1963 Act or any enactment similar to any such provision (whenever passed), any other local authority have become entitled to the securities or any dividends or interest thereon, as the case may be, a certificate of the proper officer of the council of the county in which the area of that other authority is situated, or the scheme, order or award under which that other authority have become so entitled, shall be a sufficient authority to the company to transfer the securities into the name of the local authority specified in that behalf in the certificate, or in the scheme, order or award, as the case may be, and to pay the dividends or interest to that authority;

if in any other case any other local authority have become entitled to the securities or any dividends or interest thereon, as the case may be, the court may on application make an order vesting in that other authority the right to transfer the securities or to receive the dividends or interest, as the case may be, and the M2Trustee Act 1925 shall apply in like manner as if the vesting order were made under section 51 of that Act.

as F55a local authority for the purposes of sections 111 to 119, 128 to 131, 135, 136, 139 (except sub-sections (1)(b) and (2) ), 140, 140A, 140C, 143 and 146 above; and

as a principal council for the purposes of section 120 (except subsection (1)(b)) and sections 121 to 123 above.

as a local authority for the purposes of section 112, F60or 139 above, or

as a principal council for the purposes of section 122 above.

in the definition of “voluntary assistant” in section 140A(2), the reference to the request of the local authority or an authorised officer of the local authority included a reference to the request of a member of the police force maintained by the police authority, and

section 140C(1)(a) were omitted.