http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1974/7/part/III/1991-02-01Local Government Act 1974An Act to make further provision, in relation to England and Wales, with respect to the payment of grants to local authorities, rating and valuation, borrowing and lending by local authorities and the classification of highways; to extend the powers of the Countryside Commission to give financial assistance; to provide for the establishment of Commissions for the investigation of administrative action taken by or on behalf of local and other authorities; to restrict certain grants under the Transport Act 1968; to provide for the removal or relaxation of certain statutory controls affecting local government activities; to make provision in relation to the collection of sums by local authorities on behalf of water authorities; to amend section 259(3) of the Local Government Act 1972 and to make certain minor amendments of or consequential on that Act; and for connected purposes.1982-04-01texttext/xmlenStatute Law Database2024-05-171991-02-01 Part III Local Government Administration The Commissions for Local Administration.231For the purpose of conducting investigations in accordance with this Part of this Act, there shall be—aa body of commissioners to be known as the Commission for Local Administration in England, andba body consisting of two or more commissioners to be known as the Commission for Local Administration in Walesbut each of the Commissions may include persons appointed to act as advisers, not exceeding the number appointed to conduct investigations.2The Parliamentary Commissioner shall be a member of each of the Commissions.3In the following provisions of this Part of this Act the expression “Local Commissioner” means a person, other than the Parliamentary Commissioner or an advisory member, who is a member of one of the Commissions.4Appointments to the office of . . . Commissioner shall be made by Her Majesty on the recommendation of the Secretary of State after consultation with the such persons as appear to the Secretary of State to represent authorities in England or, as the case may be, authorities in Wales to which this Part of this Act applies, and a person so appointed shall, subject to subsection (6) below, hold office during good behaviour.5. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Commissioners may be appointed to serve either as full-time commissioners or as part-time commissioners.6A . . . Commissioner may be relieved of office by Her Majesty at his own request or may be removed from office by Her Majesty on grounds of incapacity or misbehaviour, and shall in any case vacate office on completing the year of service in which he attains the age of sixty-five years.7The Secretary of State shall designate two of the Local Commissioners for England as chairman and vice-chairman respectively of the Commission for Local Administration in England and, in the event of there being more than one Local Commissioner for Wales, shall designate one of them as chairman of the Commission for Local Administration in Wales.8The Commission for Local Administration in England shall divide England into areas and shall provide, in relation to each area, for one or more of the Local Commissioners to be responsible for the area; and where the Commission for Local Administration in Wales consist of more than one Local Commissioner they may, if they think fit, act in a similar way in Wales.A Local Commissioner may, by virtue of this subsection, be made responsible for more than one area.9It shall be the duty of the Commission for Local Administration in England to ensure that any Local Commissioner made responsible for an area which includes the county of Cornwall is made responsible for an area which also includes the Isles of Scilly.10Each of the Commissions—ashall make arrangements for Local Commissioners to accept cases for which they are not responsible including, where the other Commission so request, a case arising in the country of that other Commission, andbshall publish information about the procedures for making complaints under this Part of this Act.11For the year ending on 31st March 1975, and for each subsequent financial year, every Local Commissioner shall prepare a general report on the discharge of his functions and shall submit it to his Commission; and where he has discharged functions at the request of the other Commission he shall prepare a general report on the discharge of those functions and shall submit it to the other Commission.Any such report shall be submitted to the appropriate Commission not later than two months after the end of the year to which it relates.12In the financial year beginning on 1st April 1990, and in every third financial year afterwards, the Commissions shall review the operation (since the last review was made under this subsection) of the provisions of this Part of this Act about the investigation of complaints, and shall have power to convey to authorities to which this Part of this Act applies . . . , or to government departments, any recommendations or conclusions reached in the course of their reviews and shall send copies of those recommendations or conclusions to the representative persons and authorities concerned.12AEach of the Commissions may, after consultation with the representative persons and authorities concerned, provide to the authorities or any of the authorities to which this Part of this Act applies such advice and guidance about good administrative practice as appears to the Commission to be appropriate and may arrange for it to be published for the information of the public.12BThe representative persons and authorities concerned are—afor the purposes of subsection (12) above, such persons appearing to the Commission to represent authorities in England or, as the case may be, authorities in Wales to which this Part of this Act applies, and in the case of such authorities as are not so represented, those authorities; andbfor the purposes of subsection (12A) above, such of those persons and authorities as the Commission think appropriate.13Schedule 4 to this Act shall have effect as respects the Commissions.<Addition ChangeId="d30p1147" CommentaryRef="c779613"> Annual reports for representatives <Abbreviation Expansion="et cetera" xml:lang="la">etc.</Abbreviation></Addition>23A1For the financial year ending in 1990 and for each subsequent financial year, each of the Commissions shall prepare a general report on the discharge of their functions and shall submit it—ato such persons as appear to the Commission to represent authorities in England or, as the case may be, authorities in Wales to which this Part of this Act applies, andbin the case of such authorities as are not so represented, to those authorities.2The report shall be submitted as soon as may be after the Commission have received the reports for the year from Local Commissioners under section 23(11) above, and each Commission shall submit copies of those reports, together with their own report.3Each Commission shall arrange for the publication of the report submitted by them under subsection (1) above and of the reports of which copies are submitted by them under subsection (2) above.4Before arranging for the publication of a report under subsection (3) above the Commission concerned shall give a reasonable opportunity for the representative persons and authorities to whom the report was submitted to comment on it.5Without prejudice to the generality of subsection (4) above, comments made by the representative persons and authorities by virtue of that subsection may relate to particular classes of authorities to which this Part of this Act applies.6Where the Commission for Local Administration in Wales consist of only one Local Commissioner, section 23(11) above and subsection (2) above shall have effect with the necessary modifications.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . <CommentaryRef Ref="c779615"/>24 Authorities subject to investigation.251This Part of this Act applies to the following authoritiesaany local authority,aathe Land Authority for Wales . . . bany joint board the constituent authorities of which are all local authorities,bathe Commission for the New Towns,bbany development corporation established for the purposes of a new town,bcthe Development Board for Rural Wales,bdany urban development corporation established by an order under section 135 of the Local Government, Planning and Land Act 1980,beany housing action trust established under Part III of the Housing Act 1988cany joint authority established by Part IV of the Local Government Act 1985;caany other police authority, except the Secretary of State;cb. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . din relation to the flood defence functions of the National Rivers Authority (that is to say, its functions by virtue of Chapter III of Part III of the Water Act 1989, including all its functions under the Land Drainage Act 1976), the National Rivers Authority and any regional flood defence committee.2Her Majesty may by Order in Council provide that this Part of this Act shall also apply, subject to any modifications or exceptions specified in the Order, to any authority specified in the Order, being an authority which is established by or under an Act of Parliament, and which has power to levy a rate, or to issue a precept.3An Order made by virtue of subsection (2) above may be varied or revoked by a subsequent Order so made and shall be subject to annulment in pursuance of a resolution of either House of Parliament.4Any reference to an authority to which this Part of this Act applies includes a reference—ato the members and officers of that authority, andbto any person or body of persons acting for the authority under section 101 . . . , orcany committee mentioned in section 101(9) of the said Act.5Any reference to an authority to which this Part of this Act applies also includes a reference to any appeal committee constituted in accordance with paragraph 1 of Schedule 2 to the Education Act 1980. Matters subject to investigation. <CommentaryRef Ref="c779982"/>261Subject to the provisions of this Part of this Act where a written complaint is made by or on behalf of a member of the public who claims to have sustained injustice in consequence of maladministration in connection with action taken by or on behalf of an authority to which this Part of this Act applies, being action taken in the exercise of administrative functions of that authority, a Local Commissioner may investigate that complaint.2A complaint shall not be entertained under this Part of this Act unless it is made in writing to the Local Commissioner specifying the action alleged to constitute maladministration orait is made in writing to a member of the authority, or of any other authority concerned, specifying the action alleged to constitute maladministration, andbit is referred to the Local Commissioner, with the consent of the person aggrieved, or of a person acting on his behalf, by that member, or by any other person who is a member of any authority concerned, with a request to investigate the complaint.3If the Local Commissioner is satisfied that any member of any authority concerned has been requested to refer the complaint to a Local Commissioner, and has not done so, the Local Commissioner may, if he thinks fit, dispense with the requirements in subsection (2)(b) above.4A complaint shall not be entertained unless it was made to the Local Commissioner or a member of any authority concerned within twelve months from the day on which the person aggrieved first had notice of the matters alleged in the complaint, but a Local Commissioner may conduct an investigation pursuant to a complaint not made within that period if he considers that it is reasonable to do so.5Before proceeding to investigate a complaint, a Local Commissioner shall satisfy himself that the complaint has been brought, by or on behalf of the person aggrieved, to the notice of the authority to which the complaint relates and that that authority has been afforded a reasonable opportunity to investigate, and reply to, the complaint.6A Local Commissioner shall not conduct an investigation under this Part of this Act in respect of any of the following matters, that is to say,—aany action in respect of which the person aggrieved has or had a right of appeal, reference or review to or before a tribunal constituted by or under any enactment;bany action in respect of which the person aggrieved has or had a right of appeal to a Minister of the Crown; orcany action in respect of which the person aggrieved has or had a remedy by way of proceedings in any court of law:Provided that a Local Commissioner may conduct an investigation notwithstanding the existence of such a right or remedy if satisfied that in the particular circumstances it is not reasonable to expect the person aggrieved to resort or have resorted to it.7A Local Commissioner shall not conduct an investigation in respect of any action which in his opinion affects all or most of the inhabitants of the following area—awhere the complaint relates to the Commission for the New Towns, the area of the new town or towns to which the complaint relates;bwhere the complaint relates to the Development Board for Rural Wales, the area in Wales for which the Board is for the time being responsible;cin any other case, the area of the authority concerned.8Without prejudice to the preceding provisions of this section, a Local Commissioner shall not conduct an investigation under this Part of this Act in respect of any such action or matter as is described in Schedule 5 to this Act.9Her Majesty may by Order in Council amend the said Schedule 5 so as to add to or exclude from the provisions of that Schedule (as it has effect for the time being) such actions or matters as may be described in the Order; and any Order made by virtue of this subsection shall be subject to annulment in pursuance of a resolution of either House of Parliament.10In determining whether to initiate, continue or discontinue an investigation, a Local Commissioner shall, subject to the preceding provisions of this section, act at discretion; and any question whether a complaint is duly made under this Part of this Act shall be determined by the Local Commissioner.11In this section—areferences to a person aggrieved include references to his personal representatives; andbreferences to a member of an authority concerned include, in the case of a complaint relating to a joint authority established by Part IV of the Local Government Act 1985, references to a member of a constituent council of that authority.12A complaint shall not be entertained under this Part of this Act if and so far as it is in respect of anything done before 1st April 1974, or in respect of any default or alleged default first arising before that date.13A complaint as regards an authority mentioned in section 25(1)(ba), (bb), (bc) or (bd) above shall not be entertained under this Part of this Act if and so far as it is in respect of anything done before the coming into force of Schedule 3 to the Local Government Act 1988, or in respect of any default or alleged default first arising before its coming into force; and subsection (12) above shall have effect subject to this. Provisions relating to complaints. <CommentaryRef Ref="c780059"/>271A complaint under this Part of this Act may be made by any individual, or by any body of persons whether incorporated or not, not being—aa local authority or other authority or body constituted for purposes of the public service or of local government, or for the purposes of carrying on under national ownership any industry or undertaking or part of an industry or undertaking;bany other authority or body whose members are appointed by Her Majesty or any Minister of the Crown or government department, or whose revenues consist wholly or mainly of moneys provided by Parliament.2Where the person by whom a complaint might have been made under the preceding provisions of this Part of this Act has died or is for any reason unable to act for himself, the complaint may be made by his personal representative or by a member of his family or by some body or individual suitable to represent him; but except as aforesaid a complaint shall not be entertained under this Part of this Act unless made by the person aggrieved himself. Procedure in respect of investigations. <CommentaryRef Ref="c780067"/>281Where a Local Commissioner proposes to conduct an investigation pursuant to a complaint, he shall afford to the authority concerned, and to any person who is alleged in the complaint to have taken or authorised the action complained of, an opportunity to comment on any allegations contained in the complaint.2Every such investigation shall be conducted in private, but except as aforesaid the procedure for conducting an investigation shall be such as the Local Commissioner considers appropriate in the circumstances of the case; and without prejudice to the generality of the preceding provision the Local Commissioner may obtain information from such persons and in such manner, and make such inquiries, as he thinks fit, and may determine whether any person may be represented (by counsel or solicitor or otherwise) in the investigation.3The Local Commissioner may, if he thinks fit, pay to the person by whom the complaint was made, and to any other person who attends or furnishes information for the purposes of an investigation under this Part of this Act—asums in respect of the expenses properly incurred by them;ballowances by way of compensation for the loss of their time,in accordance with such scales and subject to such conditions as may be determined by the Treasury.4The conduct of an investigation under this Part of this Act shall not affect any action taken by the authority concerned, or any power or duty of that authority to take further action with respect to any matters subject to the investigation. Investigations: further provisions. <CommentaryRef Ref="c780073"/>291For the purposes of an investigation under this Part of this Act a Local Commissioner may require any member or officer of the authority concerned, or any other person who in his opinion is able to furnish information or produce documents relevant to the investigation, to furnish any such information or produce any such documents.2For the purposes of any such investigation a Local Commissioner shall have the same powers as the High Court in respect of the attendance and examination of witnesses, and in respect of the production of documents.3A Local Commissioner may, under subsection (1) above, require any person to furnish information concerning communications between the authority concerned and any Government department, or to produce any correspondence or other documents forming part of any such written communications.4No obligation to maintain secrecy or other restriction upon the disclosure of information obtained by or furnished to persons in Her Majesty’s service, whether imposed by any enactment or by any rule of law, shall apply to the disclosure of information in accordance with subsection (3) above; and where that subsection applies the Crown shall not be entitled to any such privilege in respect of the production of documents or the giving of evidence as is allowed by law in legal proceedings.5Nothing in subsection (1) or subsection (3) above affects—athe restriction, imposed by section 11(2) of the Parliamentary Commissioner Act 1967, on the disclosure of information by the Parliamentary Commissioner or his officers; orbthe restriction, imposed by paragraph 16 of Schedule 13 to the National Health Service Act 1977, on the disclosure of information by the Health Service Commissioner for England or the Health Service Commissioner for Wales, or by their officers.6To assist him in any investigation, a Local Commissioner may obtain advice from any person who in his opinion is qualified to give it and may pay to any such person such fees or allowances as he may determine with the approval of the Treasury.7Subject to subsection (4) above, no person shall be compelled for the purposes of an investigation under this Part of this Act to give any evidence or produce any document which he could not be compelled to give or produce in civil proceedings before the High Court.8If any person without lawful excuse obstructs a Local Commissioner in the performance of his functions under this Part of this Act, or any officer of the Commission assisting in the performance of those functions, or is guilty of any act or omission in relation to an investigation under this Part of this Act which, if that investigation were a proceeding in the High Court, would constitute contempt of court, the Local Commissioner may certify the offence to the High Court.9Where an offence is so certified, the High Court may inquire into the matter and, after hearing any witnesses who may be produced against or on behalf of the person charged with the offence, and after hearing any statement that may be offered in defence, deal with him in any manner in which the High Court could deal with him if he had committed the like offence in relation to the High Court.10Nothing in subsection (8) above shall be construed as applying to the taking of any such action as is mentioned in section 28(4) above. Reports on investigations. <CommentaryRef Ref="c780098"/>301In any case where a Local Commissioner conducts an investigation, or decides not to conduct an investigation, he shall send a report of the results of the investigation, or as the case may be a statement of his reasons for not conducting an investigation—ato the person, if any, who referred the complaint to the Local Commissioner in accordance with section 26(2) above, andbto the complainant, andcto the authority concerned, and to any other authority or person who is alleged in the complaint to have taken or authorised the action complained of.2Where the complaint was referred by a person who was a member of an authority but who has since ceased to be a member of that authority, the report or statement shall be sent to the chairman, or, as the case may be, mayor of that authority.2AWhere the complaint related to the Land Authority for Wales, the Local Commissioner shall also send the report or statement to the Secretary of State.3Apart from identifying the authority or authorities concerned, the report shall not , except where subsection (3A) below applies,amention the name of any person, orbcontain any particulars which, in the opinion of the Local Commissioner, are likely to identify any person and can be omitted without impairing the effectiveness of the report,unless, after taking into account the public interest as well as the interests of the complainant and of persons other than the complainant, the Local Commissioner considers it necessary to mention the name of that person or to include in the report any such particulars.3AWhere the Local Commissioner is of the opinion—athat action constituting maladministration was taken which involved a member of the authority concerned, andbthat the member’s conduct constituted a breach of the National Code of Local Government Conduct,then, unless the Local Commissioner is satisfied that it would be unjust to do so, the report shall name the member and give particulars of the breach.4Subject to the provisions of subsection (7) below, the authority concerned shall for a period of three weeks make copies of the report available for inspection by the public without charge at all reasonable hours at one or more of their offices; and any person shall be entitled to take copies of, or extracts from, the report when so made available.4ASubject to subsection (7) below, the authority concerned shall supply a copy of the report to any person on request if he pays such charge as the authority may reasonably require.5Not later than two weeks after the report is received by the authority concerned, the proper officer of the authority shall give public notice, by advertisement in newspapers and such other ways as appear to him appropriate, that copies of the report will be available as provided by subsections (4) and (4A) above, and shall specify the date, being a date not more than one week after the public notice is first given, from which the period of three weeks will begin.6If a person having the custody of a report made available for inspection as provided by subsection (4) above obstructs any person seeking to inspect the report, or to make a copy of, or extract from, the report, he shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 3 on the standard scale.7The Local Commissioner may, if he thinks fit after taking into account the public interest as well as the interests of the complainant and of persons other than the complainant, direct that a report specified in the direction shall not be subject to the provisions of subsections (4) , (4A) and (5) above. Reports on investigations: further provisions. <CommentaryRef Ref="c780192"/>31 1This section applies where a Local Commissioner reports that injustice has been caused to a person aggrieved in consequence of maladministration.2The report shall be laid before the authority concerned and it shall be the duty of that authority to consider the report and, within the period of three months beginning with the date on which they received the report, or such longer period as the Local Commissioner may agree in writing, to notify the Local Commissioner of the action which the authority have taken or propose to take.2AIf the Local Commissioner—adoes not receive the notification required by subsection (2) above within the period allowed by or under that subsection, orbis not satisfied with the action which the authority concerned have taken or propose to take, orcdoes not within a period of three months beginning with the end of the period so allowed, or such longer period as the Local Commissioner may agree in writing, receive confirmation from the authority concerned that they have taken action, as proposed, to the satisfaction of the Local Commissioner,he shall make a further report setting out those facts and making recommendations.2BThose recommendations are such recommendations as the Local Commissioner thinks fit to make with respect to action which, in his opinion, the authority concerned should take to remedy the injustice to the person aggrieved and to prevent similar injustice being caused in the future.2CSection 30 above, with any necessary modifications, and subsection (2) above shall apply to a report under subsection (2A) above as they apply to a report under that section.2DIf the Local Commissioner—adoes not receive the notification required by subsection (2) above as applied by subsection (2C) above within the period allowed by or under that subsection or is satisfied before the period allowed by that subsection has expired that the authority concerned have decided to take no action, orbis not satisfied with the action which the authority concerned have taken or propose to take, orcdoes not within a period of three months beginning with the end of the period allowed by or under subsection (2) above as applied by subsection (2C) above, or such longer period as the Local Commissioner may agree in writing, receive confirmation from the authority concerned that they have taken action, as proposed, to the satisfaction of the Local Commissioner,he may, by notice to the authority, require them to arrange for a statement to be published in accordance with subsections (2E) and (2F) below.2EThe statement referred to in subsection (2D) above is a statement, in such form as the authority concerned and the Local Commissioner may agree, consisting of—adetails of any action recommended by the Local Commissioner in his further report which the authority have not taken;bsuch supporting material as the Local Commissioner may require; andcif the authority so require, a statement of the reasons for their having taken no action on, or not the action recommended in, the report.2FThe requirements for the publication of the statement are that—apublication shall be in any two editions within a fortnight of a newspaper circulating in the area of the authority agreed with the Local Commissioner or, in default of agreement, nominated by him; andbpublication in the first such edition shall be arranged for the earliest practicable date.2GIf the authority concerned—afail to arrange for the publication of the statement in accordance with subsections (2E) and (2F) above, orbare unable, within the period of one month beginning with the date on which they received the notice under subsection (2D) above, or such longer period as the Local Commissioner may agree in writing, to agree with the Local Commissioner the form of the statement to be published,the Local Commissioner shall arrange for such a statement as is mentioned in subsection (2E) above to be published in any two editions within a fortnight of a newspaper circulating within the authority’s area.2HThe authority concerned shall reimburse the Commission on demand any reasonable expenses incurred by the Local Commissioner in performing his duty under subsection (2G) above.3In any case where—aa report is laid before an authority under subsection (2) or (2C) above, andbon consideration of the report, it appears to the authority that a payment should be made to, or some other benefit should be provided for, a person who has suffered injustice in consequence of maladministration to which the report relates,the authority may incur such expenditure as appears to them to be appropriate in making such a payment or providing such a benefit.<Addition ChangeId="d30p16742" CommentaryRef="c780210"> Consideration of adverse reports. <CommentaryRef Ref="c780211"/></Addition>31A1Subject to subsection (3) below, any power of an authority to have their functions discharged by any person or body of persons acting for the authority shall, as respects the consideration of a further report of the Local Commissioner under section 31(2A) above, be subject to the restriction that, if it is proposed that the authority should take no action on, or not the action recommended in, the report, consideration of the report shall be referred to the authority.2Consideration of a further report of the Local Commissioner under section 31(2A) above by any such committee of a local authority as is referred to in an enactment specified in section 101(9) of the Local Government Act 1972 or by any appeal committee constituted in accordance with paragraph 1 of Schedule 2 to the Education Act 1980 shall be subject to a corresponding restriction.3The restriction imposed by subsections (1) and (2) above does not apply where the report recommends action to be taken by—aa joint committee established under the said section 101, orbany committee referred to in an enactment specified in paragraph (c), (d) or (h) of the said section 101(9).4If an authority considering a further report of the Local Commissioner under section 31(2A) above take into consideration a report by a person or body with an interest in the Local Commissioner’s report, they shall not conclude their consideration of the Local Commissioner’s report without also having taken into consideration a report by a person or body with no interest in the Local Commissioner’s report.5No member of an authority to which this Part of this Act applies or of a committee mentioned in subsection (2) or (3) above shall vote on any question with respect to a report or further report under this Part of this Act in which he is named and criticised by a Local Commissioner.6Section 25(4) and (5) above do not apply to this section. Law of defamation, and disclosure of information. <CommentaryRef Ref="c780233"/>321For the purposes of the law of defamation, any such publication as is hereinafter mentioned shall be absolutely privileged, that is to say—athe publication of any matter in communications between a member or officer of an authority and a Local Commissioner, or any officer of either Commission, for the purposes of this Part of this Act;bthe publication of any matter by a Local Commissioner or by any officer of either Commission, in communicating with a complainant for the purposes of this Part of this Act;cthe publication of any matter in preparing, making and sending a report or statement in accordance with section 30 or section 31 above, or, subject to section 30(7) above, in making a report available to the public or in supplying a copy under section 30(4A) above;dthe publication of any matter contained in a report by a Local Commissioner which has been made available to the public, being publication by inclusion in a report made or published under section 24 above.ethe publication of any matter by inclusion in a statement published in accordance with section 31(2D), (2E) and (2F) or (2G) above.2Information obtained by a Local Commissioner, or any officer of either Commission, in the course of or for the purposes of an investigation under this Part of this Act shall not be disclosed except—afor the purposes of the investigation and of any report to be made under section 30 or section 31 above; orbfor the purposes of any proceedings for an offence under the Official Secrets Acts 1911 to 1939 alleged to have been committed in respect of information obtained, by virtue of this Part of this Act, by a Local Commissioner or by an officer of either Commission or for an offence of perjury alleged to have been committed in the course of an investigation under this Part of this Act or for the purposes of an inquiry with a view to the taking of such proceedings, orcfor the purpose of any proceedings under section 29(9) above,and a Local Commissioner and the officers of his Commission shall not be called upon to give evidence in any proceedings (other than proceedings within paragraph (b) or (c) above) of matters coming to his or their knowledge in the course of an investigation under this Part of this Act.3A Minister of the Crown or any of the authorities mentioned in section 25(1) above may give notice in writing to a Local Commissioner with respect to any document or information specified in the notice, or any class of documents or information so specified, that in the opinion of the Minister, or as the case may be of the authority, the disclosure of that document or information, or of documents or information of that class, would be contrary to the public interest; and where such a notice is given nothing in this Part of this Act shall be construed as authorising or requiring the Local Commissioner or any member of the staff of a Commission who is allocated to assist him to communicate to any other person, or for any purpose, any document or information specified in the notice, or any document or information of a class so specified:Provided that a notice given under this subsection by any authority may be discharged by the Secretary of State.4Nothing in subsection (3) above shall affect the obligations imposed by subsections (3) and (4) of section 29 above.5Where information is disclosed in accordance with section 29(3) above, being information which is derived from a communication from a government department, and which has not been made public, a Local Commissioner shall not without the written consent of an officer of the government department make a report which includes all or any of that information unless he has given the department not less than one month’s notice in writing of his intention.6The provisions of this section shall apply to the Commissioners of Customs and Excise and Commissioners of Inland Revenue as they apply to a Minister of the Crown. Consultation between Local Commissioner, the Parliamentary Commissioner and the Health Service Commissioners. <CommentaryRef Ref="c780273"/>331If, at any stage in the course of conducting an investigation under this Part of this Act, a Local Commissioner forms the opinion that the complaint relates partly to a matter which could be the subject of an investigation—aby the Parliamentary Commissioner, in accordance with section 5 of the Act of 1967, orbby the Health Service Commissioner for England or the Health Service Commissioner for Wales, in accordance with sections 109, 110, 113, 115 and 116 of the National Health Service Act 1977,he shall consult with the appropriate Commissioner about the complaint and, if he considers it necessary, inform the person initiating the complaint under this Part of this Act of the steps necessary to initiate a complaint under the Act of 1967 or under Part V of the Act of 1977, as the case may be.2Where, by virtue of subsection (1) above, a Local Commissioner consults the Parliamentary Commissioner or one of the Health Service Commissioners in relation to a complaint under this Part of this Act, he may consult that Commissioner about any matter relating to the complaint, including—athe conduct of any investigation into the complaint, andbthe form, content and publication of any report of the results of such an investigation.3If, at any stage in the course of conducting an investigation under—athe Act of 1967, orbPart V of the Act of 1977,the Commissioner conducting the investigation forms the opinion that the complaint relates partly to a matter which could be the subject of investigation under this Part of this Act, he shall consult with the appropriate Local Commissioner about the complaint and, if he considers it necessary, inform the person initiating the complaint under the Act of 1967 or Part V of the Act of 1977, as the case may be, of the steps necessary to initiate a complaint under this Part of this Act.4Where, by virtue of subsection (3) above, a Local Commissioner is consulted about a complaint under the Act of 1967 or Part V of the Act of 1977, subsection (2) above shall apply (with the necessary modifications) as it applies in relation to consultations held by virtue of subsection (1) above.5Nothing in section 11(2) of the Act of 1967, in paragraph 16 of Schedule 13 to the Act of 1977, or in section 32(2) of this Act (restrictions of disclosure of information) shall apply in relation to the disclosure of information by any of the Commissioners mentioned in this section, or by any of their officers, in the course of consultations held in accordance with this section.6In this section the “Act of 1967” means the Parliamentary Commissioner Act 1967 and the “Act of 1977” means the National Health Service Act 1977.<Addition ChangeId="d30p2730" CommentaryRef="c780321"> Disclosure of information by Local Commissioner to Information Commissioner.</Addition>33A1A Local Commissioner may disclose to the Information Commissioner any information obtained by, or furnished to, the Local Commissioner under or for the purposes of this Part of this Act if the information appears to the Local Commissioner to relate to—aa matter in respect of which the Information Commissioner could exercise any power conferred by—iPart V of the Data Protection Act 1998 (enforcement),iisection 48 of the Freedom of Information Act 2000 (practice recommendations), oriiiPart IV of that Act (enforcement), orbthe commission of an offence under—iany provision of the Data Protection Act 1998 other than paragraph 12 of Schedule 9 (obstruction of execution of warrant), oriisection 77 of the Freedom of Information Act 2000 (offence of altering etc. records with intent to prevent disclosure).2Nothing in section 32(2) of this Act shall apply in relation to the disclosure of information in accordance with this section. Interpretation of Part III. <CommentaryRef Ref="c780322"/>341In this Part of this Act, unless the context otherwise requires—action” includes failure to act, and other expressions connoting action shall be construed accordingly,the Commissions” means the Commission for Local Administration in England and the Commission for Local Administration in Wales,local authority” means a county council, . . . a district council, the Broads Authority, a London borough council, the Common Council of the City of London, or the Council of the Isles of Scilly,member”, in relation to a joint board, includes a member of any of the constituent authorities of the joint board,person aggrieved” means the person who claims or is alleged to have sustained any such injustice as is mentioned in section 26(1) above,Parliamentary Commissioner” means the Parliamentary Commissioner for Administration,. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . tribunal” includes the person constituting a tribunal consisting of one person.2Section 269 of the Local Government Act 1972 (which relates to the meaning of “England” and “Wales” in Acts passed after 1st April 1974) shall apply to this Part of this Act as if it had been passed after that date.3It is hereby declared that nothing in this Part of this Act authorises or requires a Local Commissioner to question the merits of a decision taken without maladministration by an authority in the exercise of a discretion vested in that authority.S. 23A inserted by Local Government and Housing Act 1989 (c. 42, SIF 81:1), s. 25(2)S. 23A extended (W.) (28.7.2001) by S.I. 2001/2275, reg. 3S. 24 repealed by Local Government and Housing Act 1989 (c. 42, SIF 81:1, 2), ss. 25(1), 194(4), Sch. 12 Pt. IIS. 33A inserted (30.1.2001) by 2000 c. 36, ss. 76(2), 87(2), Sch. 7 para. 4 (with ss. 56, 78)Pt. III (ss. 23-34) applied (with modifications) (1.4.1998) by S.I. 1998/633, art. LPower to make provision about matters of the kind dealt with by Pt. III (ss. 23-34) conferred (1.9.1997) by 1997 c. 50, s. 44(1), Sch. 4 para. (b); S.I. 1997/1930, art. 3(1)(2)(m)Pt. III (ss. 23-34) applied (temp. from 4.5.1995 to 31.3.1996) by S.I. 1995/1042, art. 4(1)Pt. III (ss. 23-34) restricted (30.7.1993) by S.I. 1993/1975, art. 10, Sch. 2 para. 4(2).Pt. III (ss. 23-34) power to extend, modify, apply or reproduce (with or without modifications) conferred (W.) (1.11.2000) and (E.) (28.7.2001) by 2000 c. 22, ss. 68(3), 108(4)-(6); S.I. 2000/2948, art. 2Pt. III (ss. 23-34) extended (W.) (28.7.2001) by S.I. 2001/2275, reg. 2Words added by Local Government and Housing Act 1989 (c. 42, SIF 81:1), s. 22(2)Words inserted by Local Government and Housing Act 1989 (c. 42, SIF 81:1, 2), s. 22(3)Word repealed by Local Government and Housing Act 1989 (c. 42, SIF 81:1, 2), ss. 22(4), 194(4), Sch. 12 Pt. IIWords substituted by Local Government and Housing Act 1989 (c. 42, SIF 81:1), s. 194(1), Sch. 11 para. 37Word repealed by Local Government and Housing Act 1989 (c. 42, SIF 81:1, 2), ss. 22(4), 194(4), Sch. 12 Pt. IIS. 23(12) restricted by Local Government Act 1988 (c. 9, SIF 81:1, 2), s. 29, Sch. 3 para. 2(2)Words substituted by Local Government Act 1988 (c. 9, SIF 81:1, 2), s. 29, Sch. 3 para. 2(1)Words repealed by Local Government and Housing Act 1989 (c. 42, SIF 81:1, 2), s. 194(1)(4), Sch. 11 para. 38, Sch. 12 Pt. IIWords inserted by Local Government and Housing Act 1989 (c. 42, SIF 81:1, 2), s. 194(1), Sch. 11 para. 38S. 23(12A)(12B) inserted by Local Government and Housing Act 1989 (c. 42, SIF 81:1, 2), s. 23(1)Words inserted by Local Government Act 1988 (c. 9, SIF 81:1, 2), s. 29, Sch. 3 para. 4S. 25(1)(aa) inserted by Community Land Act 1975 (c. 77), Sch. 10 para. 9(1) (continued as amended by Local Government, Planning and Land Act 1980 (c. 65), Sch. 22 para. 14(1)(2))Words repealed by Local Government, Planning and Land Act 1980 (c. 65), Sch. 34 Pt. XIS. 25(1)(ba)–(bd) inserted by Local Government Act 1988 (c. 9, SIF 81:1, 2), s. 29, Sch. 3 para. 4S. 25(1)(be) inserted by Housing Act 1988 (c. 50, SIF 61), s. 140(1), Sch. 17 para. 19S. 25(1)(c)(ca)(cb) substituted for s. 25(1)(c) by Local Government Act 1985 (c. 51, SIF 81:1), s. 84, Sch. 14 Pt. II para. 51(a)S. 25(1)(c) amended by S.I. 1985/1884, art. 10, Sch. 3 para. 4(k) and by S.I. 1989/1815, art. 2, Sch. 1 para. 6(b)S. 25(1)(c) extended by S.I. 1987/2110, art. 2(2), Sch. 2 para. 8(h)S. 25(1)(cb) repealed by Education Reform Act 1988 (c. 40, SIF 41:1), ss. 231(7), 235(6), 237(2), Sch. 13 Pt. IS. 25(1)(d) substituted by Water Act 1989 (c. 15, SIF 130), ss. 1(6), 58(7), 101(1), 141(6), 160(1)(2)(4), 163, 189(4)–(10), 190, 193(1), Sch. 1 para. 12, Sch. 26 paras. 3(1)(2), 17, 40(4), 57(6), 58Words repealed by Local Government and Housing Act 1989 (c. 42, SIF 81:1), s. 194(4), Sch. 12 Pt. IIS. 25(5) inserted with saving by Education Act 1980 (c. 20), s. 7(7) and S.I. 1980/959, Sch. 3 para. 11980 c. 20. S. 26 modified by S.I. 1986/452, art. 8(3)(5)Words inserted by Local Government Act 1988 (c. 9, SIF 81:1, 2), s. 29, Sch. 3 para. 5(2)Words inserted by Local Government Act 1988 (c. 9, SIF 81:1, 2), s. 29, Sch. 3 para. 5(3)(7)Words substituted by Local Government Act 1988 (c. 9, SIF 81:1, 2), s. 29, Sch. 3 para. 5(3)(7)S. 26(7)(a)–(c) and words substituted by Local Government Act 1988 (c. 9, SIF 81:1, 2), s. 29, Sch. 3 para. 5(4)Words substituted by Local Government Act 1988 (c. 9, SIF 81:1, 2), s. 29, Sch. 3 para. 5(5)S. 26(11) substituted by Local Government Act 1985 (c. 51, SIF 81:1), s. 84, Sch. 14 Pt. II para. 51(b)S. 26(11)(b) amended by S.I. 1985/1884, art. 10, Sch. 3 para. 4(k)S. 26(11)(b) extended by S.I. 1987/2110, art. 2(2), Sch. 1 para. 8(k)S. 26(13) inserted by Local Government Act 1988 (c. 9, SIF 81:1, 2), s. 29, Sch. 3 para. 5(6)Ss. 27–30 modified by S.I. 1986/452, art. 8(3)Ss. 27–30 modified by S.I. 1986/452, art. 8(3)Words substituted by virtue of S.I. 1981/1670, arts. 2(3), 3(5)Ss. 27–30 modified by S.I. 1986/452, art. 8(3)1967 c. 13. Words substituted by National Health Service Act 1977 (c. 49), Sch. 15 para. 601977 c. 49. Words substituted by virtue of S.I. 1981/1670, arts. 2(3), 3(5)Ss. 27–30 modified by S.I. 1986/452, art. 8(3)S. 30(2A) inserted by Community Land Act 1975 (c. 77), Sch. 10 para. 9(2) (continued by Local Government, Planning and Land Act 1980 (c. 65), Sch. 22 para. 14(3))Words inserted by Local Government and Housing Act 1989 (c. 42, SIF 81:1, 2), s. 32(1)(a)S. 30(3A) inserted by Local Government and Housing Act 1989 (c. 42, SIF 81:1, 2), s. 32(1)(b)S. 30(4A) inserted by Local Government Act 1988 (c. 9, SIF 81:1, 2), s. 29, Sch. 3 para. 6(2)(5)Words substituted by Local Government Act 1988 (c. 9, SIF 81:1, 2), s. 29, Sch. 3 para. 6(3)(a)(5)Words substituted by Local Government Act 1988 (c. 9, SIF 81:1, 2), s. 29, Sch. 3 para. 6(3)(b)(5)Words substituted by Local Government Act 1988 (c. 9, SIF 81:1, 2), s. 29, Sch. 3 para. 6(3)(c)(5)Words substituted by virtue of Criminal Justice Act 1982 (c. 48, SIF 39:1), ss. 38, 46Words substituted by Local Government Act 1988 (c. 9, SIF 81:1, 2), s. 29, Sch. 3 para. 6(4)(5)Ss. 31–34 modified by S.I. 1986/452, art. 8(3)S. 31 subsections (1)–(2H) substituted for subsections (1)(2) by virtue of Local Government and Housing Act 1989 (c. 42, SIF 81:1, 2), s. 26(1)(2)S. 31(3) added by Local Government Act 1978 (c. 39), s. 1Words substituted by virtue of Local Government and Housing Act 1989 (c. 42, SIF 81:1, 2), s. 194(1), Sch. 11 para. 39(1)(2)Words substituted by Local Government Act 1988 (c. 9, SIF 81:1, 2), s. 29, Sch. 3 para. 7(1)(4)(5)S. 31A inserted by Local Government and Housing Act 1989 (c. 42, SIF 81:1, 2), s. 28Ss. 31–34 modified by S.I. 1986/452, art. 8(3)Ss. 31–34 modified by S.I. 1986/452, art. 8(3)Words inserted by Local Government Act 1988 (c. 9, SIF 81:1, 2), s. 29, Sch. 3 para. 8(2)(4)Words inserted by Local Government Act 1988 (c. 9, SIF 81:1, 2), s. 29, Sch. 3 para. 8(3)(4)S. 32(1)(e) inserted by Local Government and Housing Act 1989 (c. 42, SIF 81:1, 2), s. 194(1), Sch. 11 para. 40S. 32(2)(b) amended by Official Secrets Act 1989 (c. 6, SIF 39:2), s. 16(3), Sch. 1 para. 1(e)Words substituted by Local Government, Planning and Land Act 1980 (c. 65), s. 184(1)Ss. 31–34 modified by S.I. 1986/452, art. 8(3)Words substituted by National Health Service Act 1977 (c. 49), Sch. 15 para. 61(a)1977 c. 49. Words substituted by National Health Service Act 1977 (c. 49), Sch. 15 para. 61(b)Words substituted by National Health Service Act 1977 (c. 49), Sch. 15 para. 61(c)Words substituted by National Health Service Act 1977 (c. 49), Sch. 15 para. 61(d)1967 c. 13. Words substituted by National Health Service Act 1977 (c. 49), Sch. 15 para. 61(e)1977 c. 49. Ss. 31–34 modified by S.I. 1986/452, art. 8(3)Words repealed by Local Government Act 1985 (c. 51, SIF 81:1), ss. 1, 102, Sch. 17Words inserted by Norfolk and Suffolk Broads Act 1988 (c. 4, SIF 81:1), ss. 21, 23(2), 27(2), Sch. 6 para. 12Definition repealed by Local Government and Housing Act 1989 (c. 42, SIF 81:1, 2), s. 194(4), Sch. 12 Pt. II1972 c. 70.
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<Title> Local Government Administration</Title>
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<Title> The Commissions for Local Administration.</Title>
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<Text>For the purpose of conducting investigations in accordance with this Part of this Act, there shall be—</Text>
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<Text>
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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Commissioners may be appointed to serve either as full-time commissioners or as part-time commissioners.
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A . . .
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Commissioner may be relieved of office by Her Majesty at his own request or may be removed from office by Her Majesty on grounds of incapacity or misbehaviour, and shall in any case vacate office on completing the year of service in which he attains the age of sixty-five years.
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<Text>The Secretary of State shall designate two of the Local Commissioners for England as chairman and vice-chairman respectively of the Commission for Local Administration in England and, in the event of there being more than one Local Commissioner for Wales, shall designate one of them as chairman of the Commission for Local Administration in Wales.</Text>
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<Text>The Commission for Local Administration in England shall divide England into areas and shall provide, in relation to each area, for one or more of the Local Commissioners to be responsible for the area; and where the Commission for Local Administration in Wales consist of more than one Local Commissioner they may, if they think fit, act in a similar way in Wales.</Text>
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<P2para>
<Text>A Local Commissioner may, by virtue of this subsection, be made responsible for more than one area.</Text>
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<Text>It shall be the duty of the Commission for Local Administration in England to ensure that any Local Commissioner made responsible for an area which includes the county of Cornwall is made responsible for an area which also includes the Isles of Scilly.</Text>
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<Text>For the year ending on 31st March 1975, and for each subsequent financial year, every Local Commissioner shall prepare a general report on the discharge of his functions and shall submit it to his Commission; and where he has discharged functions at the request of the other Commission he shall prepare a general report on the discharge of those functions and shall submit it to the other Commission.</Text>
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<Text>Any such report shall be submitted to the appropriate Commission not later than two months after the end of the year to which it relates.</Text>
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<Text>
<Addition ChangeId="d30p10728" CommentaryRef="c779591">In the financial year beginning on 1st April 1990, and in every third financial year afterwards, the Commissions shall review the operation (since the last review was made under this subsection) of the provisions of this Part of this Act about the investigation of complaints, and shall have power to convey to authorities to which this Part of this Act applies</Addition>
. . .
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, or to government departments, any recommendations or conclusions reached in the course of their reviews
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.
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<Addition ChangeId="d30p10738" CommentaryRef="c779594">Each of the Commissions may, after consultation with the representative persons and authorities concerned, provide to the authorities or any of the authorities to which this Part of this Act applies such advice and guidance about good administrative practice as appears to the Commission to be appropriate and may arrange for it to be published for the information of the public.</Addition>
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<Addition ChangeId="d30p10738" CommentaryRef="c779594">a</Addition>
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<Text>
<Addition ChangeId="d30p10738" CommentaryRef="c779594">for the purposes of subsection (12) above, such persons appearing to the Commission to represent authorities in England or, as the case may be, authorities in Wales to which this Part of this Act applies, and in the case of such authorities as are not so represented, those authorities; and</Addition>
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</Pnumber>
<P3para>
<Text>
<Addition ChangeId="d30p1147" CommentaryRef="c779613">in the case of such authorities as are not so represented, to those authorities.</Addition>
</Text>
</P3para>
</P3>
</P2para>
</P2>
<P2 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1974/7/section/23A/2/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1974/7/section/23A/2" id="section-23A-2">
<Pnumber>
<Addition ChangeId="d30p1147" CommentaryRef="c779613">2</Addition>
</Pnumber>
<P2para>
<Text>
<Addition ChangeId="d30p1147" CommentaryRef="c779613">The report shall be submitted as soon as may be after the Commission have received the reports for the year from Local Commissioners under section 23(11) above, and each Commission shall submit copies of those reports, together with their own report.</Addition>
</Text>
</P2para>
</P2>
<P2 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1974/7/section/23A/3/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1974/7/section/23A/3" id="section-23A-3">
<Pnumber>
<Addition ChangeId="d30p1147" CommentaryRef="c779613">3</Addition>
</Pnumber>
<P2para>
<Text>
<Addition ChangeId="d30p1147" CommentaryRef="c779613">Each Commission shall arrange for the publication of the report submitted by them under subsection (1) above and of the reports of which copies are submitted by them under subsection (2) above.</Addition>
</Text>
</P2para>
</P2>
<P2 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1974/7/section/23A/4/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1974/7/section/23A/4" id="section-23A-4">
<Pnumber>
<Addition ChangeId="d30p1147" CommentaryRef="c779613">4</Addition>
</Pnumber>
<P2para>
<Text>
<Addition ChangeId="d30p1147" CommentaryRef="c779613">Before arranging for the publication of a report under subsection (3) above the Commission concerned shall give a reasonable opportunity for the representative persons and authorities to whom the report was submitted to comment on it.</Addition>
</Text>
</P2para>
</P2>
<P2 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1974/7/section/23A/5/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1974/7/section/23A/5" id="section-23A-5">
<Pnumber>
<Addition ChangeId="d30p1147" CommentaryRef="c779613">5</Addition>
</Pnumber>
<P2para>
<Text>
<Addition ChangeId="d30p1147" CommentaryRef="c779613">Without prejudice to the generality of subsection (4) above, comments made by the representative persons and authorities by virtue of that subsection may relate to particular classes of authorities to which this Part of this Act applies.</Addition>
</Text>
</P2para>
</P2>
<P2 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1974/7/section/23A/6/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1974/7/section/23A/6" id="section-23A-6">
<Pnumber>
<Addition ChangeId="d30p1147" CommentaryRef="c779613">6</Addition>
</Pnumber>
<P2para>
<Text>
<Addition ChangeId="d30p1147" CommentaryRef="c779613">Where the Commission for Local Administration in Wales consist of only one Local Commissioner, section 23(11) above and subsection (2) above shall have effect with the necessary modifications.</Addition>
</Text>
</P2para>
</P2>
</P1para>
</P1>
</P1group>
<P1group>
<Title>
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
<CommentaryRef Ref="c779615"/>
</Title>
<P1 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1974/7/section/24/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1974/7/section/24" id="section-24">
<Pnumber>24</Pnumber>
<P1para>
<Text/>
</P1para>
</P1>
</P1group>
<P1group RestrictEndDate="1991-12-01" RestrictExtent="E+W">
<Title> Authorities subject to investigation.</Title>
<P1 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1974/7/section/25/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1974/7/section/25" id="section-25">
<Pnumber>25</Pnumber>
<P1para>
<P2 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1974/7/section/25/1/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1974/7/section/25/1" RestrictEndDate="2004-11-10" id="section-25-1">
<Pnumber>1</Pnumber>
<P2para>
<Text>
This Part of this Act applies to
<Addition ChangeId="d30p10785" CommentaryRef="c779616">the following authorities</Addition>
</Text>
<P3 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1974/7/section/25/1/a/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1974/7/section/25/1/a" id="section-25-1-a">
<Pnumber>a</Pnumber>
<P3para>
<Text>any local authority,</Text>
</P3para>
</P3>
<P3 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1974/7/section/25/1/aa/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1974/7/section/25/1/aa" id="section-25-1-aa">
<Pnumber>
<Addition ChangeId="d30p10795" CommentaryRef="c779617">aa</Addition>
</Pnumber>
<P3para>
<Text>
<Addition ChangeId="d30p10795" CommentaryRef="c779617">
the Land Authority for Wales . . .
<CommentaryRef Ref="c779618"/>
</Addition>
</Text>
</P3para>
</P3>
<P3 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1974/7/section/25/1/b/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1974/7/section/25/1/b" id="section-25-1-b">
<Pnumber>b</Pnumber>
<P3para>
<Text>any joint board the constituent authorities of which are all local authorities,</Text>
</P3para>
</P3>
<P3 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1974/7/section/25/1/ba/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1974/7/section/25/1/ba" id="section-25-1-ba">
<Pnumber>
<Addition ChangeId="d30p10810" CommentaryRef="c779619">ba</Addition>
</Pnumber>
<P3para>
<Text>
<Addition ChangeId="d30p10810" CommentaryRef="c779619">the Commission for the New Towns,</Addition>
</Text>
</P3para>
</P3>
<P3 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1974/7/section/25/1/bb/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1974/7/section/25/1/bb" id="section-25-1-bb">
<Pnumber>
<Addition ChangeId="d30p10810" CommentaryRef="c779619">bb</Addition>
</Pnumber>
<P3para>
<Text>
<Addition ChangeId="d30p10810" CommentaryRef="c779619">any development corporation established for the purposes of a new town,</Addition>
</Text>
</P3para>
</P3>
<P3 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1974/7/section/25/1/bc/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1974/7/section/25/1/bc" id="section-25-1-bc">
<Pnumber>
<Addition ChangeId="d30p10810" CommentaryRef="c779619">bc</Addition>
</Pnumber>
<P3para>
<Text>
<Addition ChangeId="d30p10810" CommentaryRef="c779619">the Development Board for Rural Wales,</Addition>
</Text>
</P3para>
</P3>
<P3 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1974/7/section/25/1/bd/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1974/7/section/25/1/bd" id="section-25-1-bd">
<Pnumber>
<Addition ChangeId="d30p10810" CommentaryRef="c779619">bd</Addition>
</Pnumber>
<P3para>
<Text>
<Addition ChangeId="d30p10810" CommentaryRef="c779619">any urban development corporation established by an order under section 135 of the Local Government, Planning and Land Act 1980,</Addition>
</Text>
</P3para>
</P3>
<P3 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1974/7/section/25/1/be/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1974/7/section/25/1/be" id="section-25-1-be">
<Pnumber>
<Addition ChangeId="d30p10836" CommentaryRef="c779620">be</Addition>
</Pnumber>
<P3para>
<Text>
<Addition ChangeId="d30p10836" CommentaryRef="c779620">any housing action trust established under Part III of the Housing Act 1988</Addition>
</Text>
</P3para>
</P3>
<P3 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1974/7/section/25/1/c/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1974/7/section/25/1/c" id="section-25-1-c">
<Pnumber>
<Addition ChangeId="d30p10845" CommentaryRef="c779621">
<CommentaryRef Ref="c779622"/>
<CommentaryRef Ref="c779623"/>
c
</Addition>
</Pnumber>
<P3para>
<Text>
<Addition ChangeId="d30p10845" CommentaryRef="c779621">any joint authority established by Part IV of the Local Government Act 1985;</Addition>
</Text>
</P3para>
</P3>
<P3 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1974/7/section/25/1/ca/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1974/7/section/25/1/ca" id="section-25-1-ca">
<Pnumber>
<Addition ChangeId="d30p10845" CommentaryRef="c779621">ca</Addition>
</Pnumber>
<P3para>
<Text>
<Addition ChangeId="d30p10845" CommentaryRef="c779621">any other police authority, except the Secretary of State;</Addition>
</Text>
</P3para>
</P3>
<P3 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1974/7/section/25/1/cb/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1974/7/section/25/1/cb" id="section-25-1-cb">
<Pnumber>
<Addition ChangeId="d30p10845" CommentaryRef="c779621">cb</Addition>
</Pnumber>
<P3para>
<Text>
<Addition ChangeId="d30p10845" CommentaryRef="c779621">
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
<CommentaryRef Ref="c779624"/>
</Addition>
</Text>
</P3para>
</P3>
<P3 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1974/7/section/25/1/d/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1974/7/section/25/1/d" id="section-25-1-d">
<Pnumber>
<Addition ChangeId="d30p10868" CommentaryRef="c779625">d</Addition>
</Pnumber>
<P3para>
<Text>
<Addition ChangeId="d30p10868" CommentaryRef="c779625">
in relation to the flood defence functions of the National Rivers Authority (that is to say, its functions by virtue of Chapter
<Acronym Expansion="3">III</Acronym>
of Part III of the Water Act 1989, including all its functions under the Land Drainage Act 1976), the National Rivers Authority and any regional flood defence committee.
</Addition>
</Text>
</P3para>
</P3>
</P2para>
</P2>
<P2 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1974/7/section/25/2/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1974/7/section/25/2" id="section-25-2">
<Pnumber>2</Pnumber>
<P2para>
<Text>Her Majesty may by Order in Council provide that this Part of this Act shall also apply, subject to any modifications or exceptions specified in the Order, to any authority specified in the Order, being an authority which is established by or under an Act of Parliament, and which has power to levy a rate, or to issue a precept.</Text>
</P2para>
</P2>
<P2 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1974/7/section/25/3/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1974/7/section/25/3" id="section-25-3">
<Pnumber>3</Pnumber>
<P2para>
<Text>An Order made by virtue of subsection (2) above may be varied or revoked by a subsequent Order so made and shall be subject to annulment in pursuance of a resolution of either House of Parliament.</Text>
</P2para>
</P2>
<P2 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1974/7/section/25/4/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1974/7/section/25/4" id="section-25-4">
<Pnumber>4</Pnumber>
<P2para>
<Text>Any reference to an authority to which this Part of this Act applies includes a reference—</Text>
<P3 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1974/7/section/25/4/a/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1974/7/section/25/4/a" id="section-25-4-a">
<Pnumber>a</Pnumber>
<P3para>
<Text>to the members and officers of that authority, and</Text>
</P3para>
</P3>
<P3 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1974/7/section/25/4/b/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1974/7/section/25/4/b" id="section-25-4-b">
<Pnumber>b</Pnumber>
<P3para>
<Text>
to any person or body of persons acting for the authority under section 101 . . .
<CommentaryRef Ref="c779626"/>
, or
</Text>
</P3para>
</P3>
<P3 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1974/7/section/25/4/c/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1974/7/section/25/4/c" id="section-25-4-c">
<Pnumber>c</Pnumber>
<P3para>
<Text>any committee mentioned in section 101(9) of the said Act.</Text>
</P3para>
</P3>
</P2para>
</P2>
<P2 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1974/7/section/25/5/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1974/7/section/25/5" RestrictEndDate="2004-01-09" id="section-25-5">
<Pnumber>
<Addition ChangeId="d30p10914" CommentaryRef="c779627">5</Addition>
</Pnumber>
<P2para>
<Text>
<Addition ChangeId="d30p10914" CommentaryRef="c779627">Any reference to an authority to which this Part of this Act applies also includes a reference to any appeal committee constituted in accordance with paragraph 1 of Schedule 2 to the </Addition>
<Addition ChangeId="d30p10914" CommentaryRef="c779627">
<CommentaryRef Ref="c779628"/>
Education Act 1980.
</Addition>
</Text>
</P2para>
</P2>
</P1para>
</P1>
</P1group>
<P1group RestrictEndDate="1991-04-01" RestrictStartDate="1991-02-01" RestrictExtent="E+W">
<Title>
Matters subject to investigation.
<CommentaryRef Ref="c779982"/>
</Title>
<P1 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1974/7/section/26/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1974/7/section/26" id="section-26">
<Pnumber>26</Pnumber>
<P1para>
<P2 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1974/7/section/26/1/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1974/7/section/26/1" id="section-26-1">
<Pnumber>1</Pnumber>
<P2para>
<Text>Subject to the provisions of this Part of this Act where a written complaint is made by or on behalf of a member of the public who claims to have sustained injustice in consequence of maladministration in connection with action taken by or on behalf of an authority to which this Part of this Act applies, being action taken in the exercise of administrative functions of that authority, a Local Commissioner may investigate that complaint.</Text>
</P2para>
</P2>
<P2 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1974/7/section/26/2/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1974/7/section/26/2" id="section-26-2">
<Pnumber>2</Pnumber>
<P2para>
<Text>
A complaint shall not be entertained under this Part of this Act unless
<Addition ChangeId="d30p14201" CommentaryRef="c779983">it is made in writing to the Local Commissioner specifying the action alleged to constitute maladministration or</Addition>
</Text>
<P3 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1974/7/section/26/2/a/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1974/7/section/26/2/a" id="section-26-2-a">
<Pnumber>a</Pnumber>
<P3para>
<Text>it is made in writing to a member of the authority, or of any other authority concerned, specifying the action alleged to constitute maladministration, and</Text>
</P3para>
</P3>
<P3 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1974/7/section/26/2/b/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1974/7/section/26/2/b" id="section-26-2-b">
<Pnumber>b</Pnumber>
<P3para>
<Text>it is referred to the Local Commissioner, with the consent of the person aggrieved, or of a person acting on his behalf, by that member, or by any other person who is a member of any authority concerned, with a request to investigate the complaint.</Text>
</P3para>
</P3>
</P2para>
</P2>
<P2 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1974/7/section/26/3/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1974/7/section/26/3" id="section-26-3">
<Pnumber>3</Pnumber>
<P2para>
<Text>If the Local Commissioner is satisfied that any member of any authority concerned has been requested to refer the complaint to a Local Commissioner, and has not done so, the Local Commissioner may, if he thinks fit, dispense with the requirements in subsection (2)(b) above.</Text>
</P2para>
</P2>
<P2 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1974/7/section/26/4/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1974/7/section/26/4" id="section-26-4">
<Pnumber>4</Pnumber>
<P2para>
<Text>
A complaint shall not be entertained unless it was made to
<Addition ChangeId="d30p14229" CommentaryRef="c779984">the Local Commissioner or</Addition>
a member of any authority concerned within twelve months from the day on which the person aggrieved first had notice of the matters alleged in the complaint, but a Local Commissioner may conduct an investigation pursuant to a complaint not made within that period if he considers that
<Addition ChangeId="d30p14233" CommentaryRef="c779985">it is reasonable</Addition>
to do so.
</Text>
</P2para>
</P2>
<P2 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1974/7/section/26/5/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1974/7/section/26/5" id="section-26-5">
<Pnumber>5</Pnumber>
<P2para>
<Text>Before proceeding to investigate a complaint, a Local Commissioner shall satisfy himself that the complaint has been brought, by or on behalf of the person aggrieved, to the notice of the authority to which the complaint relates and that that authority has been afforded a reasonable opportunity to investigate, and reply to, the complaint.</Text>
</P2para>
</P2>
<P2 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1974/7/section/26/6/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1974/7/section/26/6" id="section-26-6">
<Pnumber>6</Pnumber>
<P2para>
<Text>A Local Commissioner shall not conduct an investigation under this Part of this Act in respect of any of the following matters, that is to say,—</Text>
<P3 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1974/7/section/26/6/a/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1974/7/section/26/6/a" id="section-26-6-a">
<Pnumber>a</Pnumber>
<P3para>
<Text>any action in respect of which the person aggrieved has or had a right of appeal, reference or review to or before a tribunal constituted by or under any enactment;</Text>
</P3para>
</P3>
<P3 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1974/7/section/26/6/b/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1974/7/section/26/6/b" id="section-26-6-b">
<Pnumber>b</Pnumber>
<P3para>
<Text>any action in respect of which the person aggrieved has or had a right of appeal to a Minister of the Crown; or</Text>
</P3para>
</P3>
<P3 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1974/7/section/26/6/c/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1974/7/section/26/6/c" id="section-26-6-c">
<Pnumber>c</Pnumber>
<P3para>
<Text>any action in respect of which the person aggrieved has or had a remedy by way of proceedings in any court of law:</Text>
</P3para>
</P3>
</P2para>
<P2para>
<Text>Provided that a Local Commissioner may conduct an investigation notwithstanding the existence of such a right or remedy if satisfied that in the particular circumstances it is not reasonable to expect the person aggrieved to resort or have resorted to it.</Text>
</P2para>
</P2>
<P2 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1974/7/section/26/7/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1974/7/section/26/7" id="section-26-7">
<Pnumber>7</Pnumber>
<P2para>
<Text>
A Local Commissioner shall not conduct an investigation in respect of any action which in his opinion affects all or most of the inhabitants of the
<Addition ChangeId="d30p14276" CommentaryRef="c779986">following area—</Addition>
</Text>
<P3 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1974/7/section/26/7/a/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1974/7/section/26/7/a" id="section-26-7-a">
<Pnumber>
<Addition ChangeId="d30p14276" CommentaryRef="c779986">a</Addition>
</Pnumber>
<P3para>
<Text>
<Addition ChangeId="d30p14276" CommentaryRef="c779986">where the complaint relates to the Commission for the New Towns, the area of the new town or towns to which the complaint relates;</Addition>
</Text>
</P3para>
</P3>
<P3 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1974/7/section/26/7/b/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1974/7/section/26/7/b" id="section-26-7-b">
<Pnumber>
<Addition ChangeId="d30p14276" CommentaryRef="c779986">b</Addition>
</Pnumber>
<P3para>
<Text>
<Addition ChangeId="d30p14276" CommentaryRef="c779986">where the complaint relates to the Development Board for Rural Wales, the area in Wales for which the Board is for the time being responsible;</Addition>
</Text>
</P3para>
</P3>
<P3 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1974/7/section/26/7/c/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1974/7/section/26/7/c" id="section-26-7-c">
<Pnumber>
<Addition ChangeId="d30p14276" CommentaryRef="c779986">c</Addition>
</Pnumber>
<P3para>
<Text>
<Addition ChangeId="d30p14276" CommentaryRef="c779986">in any other case, the area of the authority concerned.</Addition>
</Text>
</P3para>
</P3>
</P2para>
</P2>
<P2 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1974/7/section/26/8/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1974/7/section/26/8" id="section-26-8">
<Pnumber>8</Pnumber>
<P2para>
<Text>Without prejudice to the preceding provisions of this section, a Local Commissioner shall not conduct an investigation under this Part of this Act in respect of any such action or matter as is described in Schedule 5 to this Act.</Text>
</P2para>
</P2>
<P2 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1974/7/section/26/9/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1974/7/section/26/9" id="section-26-9">
<Pnumber>9</Pnumber>
<P2para>
<Text>
Her Majesty may by Order in Council amend the said Schedule 5 so as to
<Addition ChangeId="d30p14309" CommentaryRef="c779987">add to or exclude from the provisions of that Schedule (as it has effect for the time being)</Addition>
such actions or matters as may be described in the Order; and any Order made by virtue of this subsection shall be subject to annulment in pursuance of a resolution of either House of Parliament.
</Text>
</P2para>
</P2>
<P2 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1974/7/section/26/10/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1974/7/section/26/10" id="section-26-10">
<Pnumber>10</Pnumber>
<P2para>
<Text>In determining whether to initiate, continue or discontinue an investigation, a Local Commissioner shall, subject to the preceding provisions of this section, act at discretion; and any question whether a complaint is duly made under this Part of this Act shall be determined by the Local Commissioner.</Text>
</P2para>
</P2>
<P2 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1974/7/section/26/11/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1974/7/section/26/11" id="section-26-11">
<Pnumber>
<Addition ChangeId="d30p14319" CommentaryRef="c779988">11</Addition>
</Pnumber>
<P2para>
<Text>
<Addition ChangeId="d30p14319" CommentaryRef="c779988">In this section—</Addition>
</Text>
<P3 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1974/7/section/26/11/a/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1974/7/section/26/11/a" id="section-26-11-a">
<Pnumber>
<Addition ChangeId="d30p14319" CommentaryRef="c779988">a</Addition>
</Pnumber>
<P3para>
<Text>
<Addition ChangeId="d30p14319" CommentaryRef="c779988">references to a person aggrieved include references to his personal representatives; and</Addition>
</Text>
</P3para>
</P3>
<P3 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1974/7/section/26/11/b/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1974/7/section/26/11/b" id="section-26-11-b">
<Pnumber>
<Addition ChangeId="d30p14319" CommentaryRef="c779988">
<CommentaryRef Ref="c779989"/>
<CommentaryRef Ref="c779990"/>
b
</Addition>
</Pnumber>
<P3para>
<Text>
<Addition ChangeId="d30p14319" CommentaryRef="c779988">references to a member of an authority concerned include, in the case of a complaint relating to a joint authority established by Part IV of the Local Government Act 1985, references to a member of a constituent council of that authority.</Addition>
</Text>
</P3para>
</P3>
</P2para>
</P2>
<P2 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1974/7/section/26/12/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1974/7/section/26/12" id="section-26-12">
<Pnumber>12</Pnumber>
<P2para>
<Text>A complaint shall not be entertained under this Part of this Act if and so far as it is in respect of anything done before 1st April 1974, or in respect of any default or alleged default first arising before that date.</Text>
</P2para>
</P2>
<P2 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1974/7/section/26/13/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1974/7/section/26/13" id="section-26-13">
<Pnumber>
<Addition ChangeId="d30p14348" CommentaryRef="c779991">13</Addition>
</Pnumber>
<P2para>
<Text>
<Addition ChangeId="d30p14348" CommentaryRef="c779991">A complaint as regards an authority mentioned in section 25(1)(ba), (bb), (bc) or (bd) above shall not be entertained under this Part of this Act if and so far as it is in respect of anything done before the coming into force of Schedule 3 to the Local Government Act 1988, or in respect of any default or alleged default first arising before its coming into force; and subsection (12) above shall have effect subject to this.</Addition>
</Text>
</P2para>
</P2>
</P1para>
</P1>
</P1group>
<P1group RestrictEndDate="1991-04-01" RestrictExtent="E+W">
<Title>
Provisions relating to complaints.
<CommentaryRef Ref="c780059"/>
</Title>
<P1 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1974/7/section/27/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1974/7/section/27" id="section-27">
<Pnumber>27</Pnumber>
<P1para>
<P2 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1974/7/section/27/1/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1974/7/section/27/1" id="section-27-1">
<Pnumber>1</Pnumber>
<P2para>
<Text>A complaint under this Part of this Act may be made by any individual, or by any body of persons whether incorporated or not, not being—</Text>
<P3 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1974/7/section/27/1/a/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1974/7/section/27/1/a" id="section-27-1-a">
<Pnumber>a</Pnumber>
<P3para>
<Text>a local authority or other authority or body constituted for purposes of the public service or of local government, or for the purposes of carrying on under national ownership any industry or undertaking or part of an industry or undertaking;</Text>
</P3para>
</P3>
<P3 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1974/7/section/27/1/b/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1974/7/section/27/1/b" id="section-27-1-b">
<Pnumber>b</Pnumber>
<P3para>
<Text>any other authority or body whose members are appointed by Her Majesty or any Minister of the Crown or government department, or whose revenues consist wholly or mainly of moneys provided by Parliament.</Text>
</P3para>
</P3>
</P2para>
</P2>
<P2 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1974/7/section/27/2/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1974/7/section/27/2" id="section-27-2">
<Pnumber>2</Pnumber>
<P2para>
<Text>Where the person by whom a complaint might have been made under the preceding provisions of this Part of this Act has died or is for any reason unable to act for himself, the complaint may be made by his personal representative or by a member of his family or by some body or individual suitable to represent him; but except as aforesaid a complaint shall not be entertained under this Part of this Act unless made by the person aggrieved himself.</Text>
</P2para>
</P2>
</P1para>
</P1>
</P1group>
<P1group RestrictEndDate="1991-04-01" RestrictExtent="E+W">
<Title>
Procedure in respect of investigations.
<CommentaryRef Ref="c780067"/>
</Title>
<P1 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1974/7/section/28/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1974/7/section/28" id="section-28">
<Pnumber>28</Pnumber>
<P1para>
<P2 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1974/7/section/28/1/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1974/7/section/28/1" id="section-28-1">
<Pnumber>1</Pnumber>
<P2para>
<Text>Where a Local Commissioner proposes to conduct an investigation pursuant to a complaint, he shall afford to the authority concerned, and to any person who is alleged in the complaint to have taken or authorised the action complained of, an opportunity to comment on any allegations contained in the complaint.</Text>
</P2para>
</P2>
<P2 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1974/7/section/28/2/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1974/7/section/28/2" id="section-28-2">
<Pnumber>2</Pnumber>
<P2para>
<Text>Every such investigation shall be conducted in private, but except as aforesaid the procedure for conducting an investigation shall be such as the Local Commissioner considers appropriate in the circumstances of the case; and without prejudice to the generality of the preceding provision the Local Commissioner may obtain information from such persons and in such manner, and make such inquiries, as he thinks fit, and may determine whether any person may be represented (by counsel or solicitor or otherwise) in the investigation.</Text>
</P2para>
</P2>
<P2 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1974/7/section/28/3/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1974/7/section/28/3" id="section-28-3">
<Pnumber>3</Pnumber>
<P2para>
<Text>The Local Commissioner may, if he thinks fit, pay to the person by whom the complaint was made, and to any other person who attends or furnishes information for the purposes of an investigation under this Part of this Act—</Text>
<P3 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1974/7/section/28/3/a/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1974/7/section/28/3/a" id="section-28-3-a">
<Pnumber>a</Pnumber>
<P3para>
<Text>sums in respect of the expenses properly incurred by them;</Text>
</P3para>
</P3>
<P3 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1974/7/section/28/3/b/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1974/7/section/28/3/b" id="section-28-3-b">
<Pnumber>b</Pnumber>
<P3para>
<Text>allowances by way of compensation for the loss of their time,</Text>
</P3para>
</P3>
<Text>
in accordance with such scales and subject to such conditions as may be determined by
<Addition ChangeId="d30p15222" CommentaryRef="c780068">the Treasury</Addition>
.
</Text>
</P2para>
</P2>
<P2 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1974/7/section/28/4/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1974/7/section/28/4" id="section-28-4">
<Pnumber>4</Pnumber>
<P2para>
<Text>The conduct of an investigation under this Part of this Act shall not affect any action taken by the authority concerned, or any power or duty of that authority to take further action with respect to any matters subject to the investigation.</Text>
</P2para>
</P2>
</P1para>
</P1>
</P1group>
<P1group RestrictEndDate="1991-04-01" RestrictExtent="E+W">
<Title>
Investigations: further provisions.
<CommentaryRef Ref="c780073"/>
</Title>
<P1 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1974/7/section/29/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1974/7/section/29" id="section-29">
<Pnumber>29</Pnumber>
<P1para>
<P2 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1974/7/section/29/1/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1974/7/section/29/1" id="section-29-1">
<Pnumber>1</Pnumber>
<P2para>
<Text>For the purposes of an investigation under this Part of this Act a Local Commissioner may require any member or officer of the authority concerned, or any other person who in his opinion is able to furnish information or produce documents relevant to the investigation, to furnish any such information or produce any such documents.</Text>
</P2para>
</P2>
<P2 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1974/7/section/29/2/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1974/7/section/29/2" id="section-29-2">
<Pnumber>2</Pnumber>
<P2para>
<Text>For the purposes of any such investigation a Local Commissioner shall have the same powers as the High Court in respect of the attendance and examination of witnesses, and in respect of the production of documents.</Text>
</P2para>
</P2>
<P2 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1974/7/section/29/3/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1974/7/section/29/3" id="section-29-3">
<Pnumber>3</Pnumber>
<P2para>
<Text>A Local Commissioner may, under subsection (1) above, require any person to furnish information concerning communications between the authority concerned and any Government department, or to produce any correspondence or other documents forming part of any such written communications.</Text>
</P2para>
</P2>
<P2 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1974/7/section/29/4/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1974/7/section/29/4" id="section-29-4">
<Pnumber>4</Pnumber>
<P2para>
<Text>No obligation to maintain secrecy or other restriction upon the disclosure of information obtained by or furnished to persons in Her Majesty’s service, whether imposed by any enactment or by any rule of law, shall apply to the disclosure of information in accordance with subsection (3) above; and where that subsection applies the Crown shall not be entitled to any such privilege in respect of the production of documents or the giving of evidence as is allowed by law in legal proceedings.</Text>
</P2para>
</P2>
<P2 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1974/7/section/29/5/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1974/7/section/29/5" id="section-29-5">
<Pnumber>5</Pnumber>
<P2para>
<Text>Nothing in subsection (1) or subsection (3) above affects—</Text>
<P3 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1974/7/section/29/5/a/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1974/7/section/29/5/a" id="section-29-5-a">
<Pnumber>a</Pnumber>
<P3para>
<Text>
the restriction, imposed by section 11(2) of the
<CommentaryRef Ref="c780074"/>
Parliamentary Commissioner Act 1967, on the disclosure of information by the Parliamentary Commissioner or his officers; or
</Text>
</P3para>
</P3>
<P3 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1974/7/section/29/5/b/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1974/7/section/29/5/b" id="section-29-5-b">
<Pnumber>b</Pnumber>
<P3para>
<Text>
the restriction, imposed by
<Addition ChangeId="d30p15287" CommentaryRef="c780075">paragraph 16 of Schedule 13 to the </Addition>
<Addition ChangeId="d30p15287" CommentaryRef="c780075">
<CommentaryRef Ref="c780076"/>
National Health Service Act 1977
</Addition>
, on the disclosure of information by the Health Service Commissioner for England or the Health Service Commissioner for Wales, or by their officers.
</Text>
</P3para>
</P3>
</P2para>
</P2>
<P2 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1974/7/section/29/6/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1974/7/section/29/6" id="section-29-6">
<Pnumber>6</Pnumber>
<P2para>
<Text>
To assist him in any investigation, a Local Commissioner may obtain advice from any person who in his opinion is qualified to give it and may pay to any such person such fees or allowances as he may determine with the approval of
<Addition ChangeId="d30p15299" CommentaryRef="c780077">the Treasury</Addition>
.
</Text>
</P2para>
</P2>
<P2 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1974/7/section/29/7/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1974/7/section/29/7" id="section-29-7">
<Pnumber>7</Pnumber>
<P2para>
<Text>Subject to subsection (4) above, no person shall be compelled for the purposes of an investigation under this Part of this Act to give any evidence or produce any document which he could not be compelled to give or produce in civil proceedings before the High Court.</Text>
</P2para>
</P2>
<P2 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1974/7/section/29/8/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1974/7/section/29/8" id="section-29-8">
<Pnumber>8</Pnumber>
<P2para>
<Text>If any person without lawful excuse obstructs a Local Commissioner in the performance of his functions under this Part of this Act, or any officer of the Commission assisting in the performance of those functions, or is guilty of any act or omission in relation to an investigation under this Part of this Act which, if that investigation were a proceeding in the High Court, would constitute contempt of court, the Local Commissioner may certify the offence to the High Court.</Text>
</P2para>
</P2>
<P2 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1974/7/section/29/9/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1974/7/section/29/9" id="section-29-9">
<Pnumber>9</Pnumber>
<P2para>
<Text>Where an offence is so certified, the High Court may inquire into the matter and, after hearing any witnesses who may be produced against or on behalf of the person charged with the offence, and after hearing any statement that may be offered in defence, deal with him in any manner in which the High Court could deal with him if he had committed the like offence in relation to the High Court.</Text>
</P2para>
</P2>
<P2 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1974/7/section/29/10/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1974/7/section/29/10" id="section-29-10">
<Pnumber>10</Pnumber>
<P2para>
<Text>Nothing in subsection (8) above shall be construed as applying to the taking of any such action as is mentioned in section 28(4) above.</Text>
</P2para>
</P2>
</P1para>
</P1>
</P1group>
<P1group RestrictEndDate="1991-04-01" RestrictExtent="E+W">
<Title>
Reports on investigations.
<CommentaryRef Ref="c780098"/>
</Title>
<P1 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1974/7/section/30/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1974/7/section/30" id="section-30">
<Pnumber>30</Pnumber>
<P1para>
<P2 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1974/7/section/30/1/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1974/7/section/30/1" id="section-30-1">
<Pnumber>1</Pnumber>
<P2para>
<Text>In any case where a Local Commissioner conducts an investigation, or decides not to conduct an investigation, he shall send a report of the results of the investigation, or as the case may be a statement of his reasons for not conducting an investigation—</Text>
<P3 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1974/7/section/30/1/a/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1974/7/section/30/1/a" id="section-30-1-a">
<Pnumber>a</Pnumber>
<P3para>
<Text>to the person, if any, who referred the complaint to the Local Commissioner in accordance with section 26(2) above, and</Text>
</P3para>
</P3>
<P3 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1974/7/section/30/1/b/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1974/7/section/30/1/b" id="section-30-1-b">
<Pnumber>b</Pnumber>
<P3para>
<Text>to the complainant, and</Text>
</P3para>
</P3>
<P3 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1974/7/section/30/1/c/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1974/7/section/30/1/c" id="section-30-1-c">
<Pnumber>c</Pnumber>
<P3para>
<Text>to the authority concerned, and to any other authority or person who is alleged in the complaint to have taken or authorised the action complained of.</Text>
</P3para>
</P3>
</P2para>
</P2>
<P2 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1974/7/section/30/2/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1974/7/section/30/2" id="section-30-2">
<Pnumber>2</Pnumber>
<P2para>
<Text>Where the complaint was referred by a person who was a member of an authority but who has since ceased to be a member of that authority, the report or statement shall be sent to the chairman, or, as the case may be, mayor of that authority.</Text>
</P2para>
</P2>
<P2 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1974/7/section/30/2A/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1974/7/section/30/2A" id="section-30-2A">
<Pnumber>
<Addition ChangeId="d30p15556" CommentaryRef="c780099">2A</Addition>
</Pnumber>
<P2para>
<Text>
<Addition ChangeId="d30p15556" CommentaryRef="c780099">Where the complaint related to the Land Authority for Wales, the Local Commissioner shall also send the report or statement to the Secretary of State.</Addition>
</Text>
</P2para>
</P2>
<P2 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1974/7/section/30/3/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1974/7/section/30/3" id="section-30-3">
<Pnumber>3</Pnumber>
<P2para>
<Text>
Apart from identifying the authority or authorities concerned, the report shall not
<Addition ChangeId="d30p15570" CommentaryRef="c780100">, except where subsection (3A) below applies,</Addition>
</Text>
<P3 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1974/7/section/30/3/a/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1974/7/section/30/3/a" id="section-30-3-a">
<Pnumber>a</Pnumber>
<P3para>
<Text>mention the name of any person, or</Text>
</P3para>
</P3>
<P3 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1974/7/section/30/3/b/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1974/7/section/30/3/b" id="section-30-3-b">
<Pnumber>b</Pnumber>
<P3para>
<Text>contain any particulars which, in the opinion of the Local Commissioner, are likely to identify any person and can be omitted without impairing the effectiveness of the report,</Text>
</P3para>
</P3>
<Text>unless, after taking into account the public interest as well as the interests of the complainant and of persons other than the complainant, the Local Commissioner considers it necessary to mention the name of that person or to include in the report any such particulars.</Text>
</P2para>
</P2>
<P2 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1974/7/section/30/3A/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1974/7/section/30/3A" RestrictEndDate="2004-09-01" id="section-30-3A">
<Pnumber>
<Addition ChangeId="d30p15588" CommentaryRef="c780101">3A</Addition>
</Pnumber>
<P2para>
<Text>
<Addition ChangeId="d30p15588" CommentaryRef="c780101">Where the Local Commissioner is of the opinion—</Addition>
</Text>
<P3 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1974/7/section/30/3A/a/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1974/7/section/30/3A/a" id="section-30-3A-a">
<Pnumber>
<Addition ChangeId="d30p15588" CommentaryRef="c780101">a</Addition>
</Pnumber>
<P3para>
<Text>
<Addition ChangeId="d30p15588" CommentaryRef="c780101">that action constituting maladministration was taken which involved a member of the authority concerned, and</Addition>
</Text>
</P3para>
</P3>
<P3 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1974/7/section/30/3A/b/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1974/7/section/30/3A/b" id="section-30-3A-b">
<Pnumber>
<Addition ChangeId="d30p15588" CommentaryRef="c780101">b</Addition>
</Pnumber>
<P3para>
<Text>
<Addition ChangeId="d30p15588" CommentaryRef="c780101">that the member’s conduct constituted a breach of the National Code of Local Government Conduct,</Addition>
</Text>
</P3para>
</P3>
<Text>
<Addition ChangeId="d30p15588" CommentaryRef="c780101">then, unless the Local Commissioner is satisfied that it would be unjust to do so, the report shall name the member and give particulars of the breach.</Addition>
</Text>
</P2para>
</P2>
<P2 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1974/7/section/30/4/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1974/7/section/30/4" id="section-30-4">
<Pnumber>4</Pnumber>
<P2para>
<Text>Subject to the provisions of subsection (7) below, the authority concerned shall for a period of three weeks make copies of the report available for inspection by the public without charge at all reasonable hours at one or more of their offices; and any person shall be entitled to take copies of, or extracts from, the report when so made available.</Text>
</P2para>
</P2>
<P2 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1974/7/section/30/4A/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1974/7/section/30/4A" id="section-30-4A">
<Pnumber>
<Addition ChangeId="d30p15616" CommentaryRef="c780102">4A</Addition>
</Pnumber>
<P2para>
<Text>
<Addition ChangeId="d30p15616" CommentaryRef="c780102">Subject to subsection (7) below, the authority concerned shall supply a copy of the report to any person on request if he pays such charge as the authority may reasonably require.</Addition>
</Text>
</P2para>
</P2>
<P2 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1974/7/section/30/5/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1974/7/section/30/5" id="section-30-5">
<Pnumber>5</Pnumber>
<P2para>
<Text>
Not later than
<Addition ChangeId="d30p15630" CommentaryRef="c780103">two weeks</Addition>
after the report is received by the authority concerned, the proper officer of the authority shall give public notice, by advertisement in newspapers and such other ways as appear to him appropriate, that
<Addition ChangeId="d30p15634" CommentaryRef="c780104">copies of the report will be available as provided by subsections (4) and (4A)</Addition>
above, and shall specify the date, being a date
<Addition ChangeId="d30p15638" CommentaryRef="c780105">not more than one week after the public notice is first given</Addition>
, from which the period of three weeks will begin.
</Text>
</P2para>
</P2>
<P2 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1974/7/section/30/6/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1974/7/section/30/6" id="section-30-6">
<Pnumber>6</Pnumber>
<P2para>
<Text>
If a person having the custody of a report made available for inspection as provided by subsection (4) above obstructs any person seeking to inspect the report, or to make a copy of, or extract from, the report, he shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding
<Addition ChangeId="d30p15649" CommentaryRef="c780106">level 3 on the standard scale</Addition>
.
</Text>
</P2para>
</P2>
<P2 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1974/7/section/30/7/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1974/7/section/30/7" id="section-30-7">
<Pnumber>7</Pnumber>
<P2para>
<Text>
The Local Commissioner may, if he thinks fit after taking into account the public interest as well as the interests of the complainant and of persons other than the complainant, direct that a report specified in the direction shall not be subject to the provisions of subsections (4)
<Addition ChangeId="d30p15659" CommentaryRef="c780107">, (4A) and (5) above</Addition>
.
</Text>
</P2para>
</P2>
</P1para>
</P1>
</P1group>
<P1group RestrictExtent="E+W" RestrictEndDate="1991-04-01">
<Title>
Reports on investigations: further provisions.
<CommentaryRef Ref="c780192"/>
</Title>
<P1 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1974/7/section/31/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1974/7/section/31" id="section-31">
<Pnumber>31</Pnumber>
<P1para>
<P2 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1974/7/section/31/1/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1974/7/section/31/1" id="section-31-1">
<Pnumber>
<Addition ChangeId="d30p16372" CommentaryRef="c780193">1</Addition>
</Pnumber>
<P2para>
<Text>
<Addition ChangeId="d30p16372" CommentaryRef="c780193">This section applies where a Local Commissioner reports that injustice has been caused to a person aggrieved in consequence of maladministration.</Addition>
</Text>
</P2para>
</P2>
<P2 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1974/7/section/31/2/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1974/7/section/31/2" id="section-31-2">
<Pnumber>
<Addition ChangeId="d30p16372" CommentaryRef="c780193">2</Addition>
</Pnumber>
<P2para>
<Text>
<Addition ChangeId="d30p16372" CommentaryRef="c780193">The report shall be laid before the authority concerned and it shall be the duty of that authority to consider the report and, within the period of three months beginning with the date on which they received the report, or such longer period as the Local Commissioner may agree in writing, to notify the Local Commissioner of the action which the authority have taken or propose to take.</Addition>
</Text>
</P2para>
</P2>
<P2 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1974/7/section/31/2A/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1974/7/section/31/2A" id="section-31-2A">
<Pnumber>
<Addition ChangeId="d30p16372" CommentaryRef="c780193">2A</Addition>
</Pnumber>
<P2para>
<Text>
<Addition ChangeId="d30p16372" CommentaryRef="c780193">If the Local Commissioner—</Addition>
</Text>
<P3 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1974/7/section/31/2A/a/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1974/7/section/31/2A/a" id="section-31-2A-a">
<Pnumber>
<Addition ChangeId="d30p16372" CommentaryRef="c780193">a</Addition>
</Pnumber>
<P3para>
<Text>
<Addition ChangeId="d30p16372" CommentaryRef="c780193">does not receive the notification required by subsection (2) above within the period allowed by or under that subsection, or</Addition>
</Text>
</P3para>
</P3>
<P3 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1974/7/section/31/2A/b/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1974/7/section/31/2A/b" id="section-31-2A-b">
<Pnumber>
<Addition ChangeId="d30p16372" CommentaryRef="c780193">b</Addition>
</Pnumber>
<P3para>
<Text>
<Addition ChangeId="d30p16372" CommentaryRef="c780193">is not satisfied with the action which the authority concerned have taken or propose to take, or</Addition>
</Text>
</P3para>
</P3>
<P3 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1974/7/section/31/2A/c/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1974/7/section/31/2A/c" id="section-31-2A-c">
<Pnumber>
<Addition ChangeId="d30p16372" CommentaryRef="c780193">c</Addition>
</Pnumber>
<P3para>
<Text>
<Addition ChangeId="d30p16372" CommentaryRef="c780193">does not within a period of three months beginning with the end of the period so allowed, or such longer period as the Local Commissioner may agree in writing, receive confirmation from the authority concerned that they have taken action, as proposed, to the satisfaction of the Local Commissioner,</Addition>
</Text>
</P3para>
</P3>
<Text>
<Addition ChangeId="d30p16372" CommentaryRef="c780193">he shall make a further report setting out those facts and making recommendations.</Addition>
</Text>
</P2para>
</P2>
<P2 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1974/7/section/31/2B/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1974/7/section/31/2B" id="section-31-2B">
<Pnumber>
<Addition ChangeId="d30p16372" CommentaryRef="c780193">2B</Addition>
</Pnumber>
<P2para>
<Text>
<Addition ChangeId="d30p16372" CommentaryRef="c780193">Those recommendations are such recommendations as the Local Commissioner thinks fit to make with respect to action which, in his opinion, the authority concerned should take to remedy the injustice to the person aggrieved and to prevent similar injustice being caused in the future.</Addition>
</Text>
</P2para>
</P2>
<P2 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1974/7/section/31/2C/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1974/7/section/31/2C" id="section-31-2C">
<Pnumber>
<Addition ChangeId="d30p16372" CommentaryRef="c780193">2C</Addition>
</Pnumber>
<P2para>
<Text>
<Addition ChangeId="d30p16372" CommentaryRef="c780193">Section 30 above, with any necessary modifications, and subsection (2) above shall apply to a report under subsection (2A) above as they apply to a report under that section.</Addition>
</Text>
</P2para>
</P2>
<P2 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1974/7/section/31/2D/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1974/7/section/31/2D" id="section-31-2D">
<Pnumber>
<Addition ChangeId="d30p16372" CommentaryRef="c780193">2D</Addition>
</Pnumber>
<P2para>
<Text>
<Addition ChangeId="d30p16372" CommentaryRef="c780193">If the Local Commissioner—</Addition>
</Text>
<P3 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1974/7/section/31/2D/a/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1974/7/section/31/2D/a" id="section-31-2D-a">
<Pnumber>
<Addition ChangeId="d30p16372" CommentaryRef="c780193">a</Addition>
</Pnumber>
<P3para>
<Text>
<Addition ChangeId="d30p16372" CommentaryRef="c780193">does not receive the notification required by subsection (2) above as applied by subsection (2C) above within the period allowed by or under that subsection or is satisfied before the period allowed by that subsection has expired that the authority concerned have decided to take no action, or</Addition>
</Text>
</P3para>
</P3>
<P3 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1974/7/section/31/2D/b/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1974/7/section/31/2D/b" id="section-31-2D-b">
<Pnumber>
<Addition ChangeId="d30p16372" CommentaryRef="c780193">b</Addition>
</Pnumber>
<P3para>
<Text>
<Addition ChangeId="d30p16372" CommentaryRef="c780193">is not satisfied with the action which the authority concerned have taken or propose to take, or</Addition>
</Text>
</P3para>
</P3>
<P3 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1974/7/section/31/2D/c/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1974/7/section/31/2D/c" id="section-31-2D-c">
<Pnumber>
<Addition ChangeId="d30p16372" CommentaryRef="c780193">c</Addition>
</Pnumber>
<P3para>
<Text>
<Addition ChangeId="d30p16372" CommentaryRef="c780193">does not within a period of three months beginning with the end of the period allowed by or under subsection (2) above as applied by subsection (2C) above, or such longer period as the Local Commissioner may agree in writing, receive confirmation from the authority concerned that they have taken action, as proposed, to the satisfaction of the Local Commissioner,</Addition>
</Text>
</P3para>
</P3>
<Text>
<Addition ChangeId="d30p16372" CommentaryRef="c780193">he may, by notice to the authority, require them to arrange for a statement to be published in accordance with subsections (2E) and (2F) below.</Addition>
</Text>
</P2para>
</P2>
<P2 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1974/7/section/31/2E/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1974/7/section/31/2E" id="section-31-2E">
<Pnumber>
<Addition ChangeId="d30p16372" CommentaryRef="c780193">2E</Addition>
</Pnumber>
<P2para>
<Text>
<Addition ChangeId="d30p16372" CommentaryRef="c780193">The statement referred to in subsection (2D) above is a statement, in such form as the authority concerned and the Local Commissioner may agree, consisting of—</Addition>
</Text>
<P3 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1974/7/section/31/2E/a/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1974/7/section/31/2E/a" id="section-31-2E-a">
<Pnumber>
<Addition ChangeId="d30p16372" CommentaryRef="c780193">a</Addition>
</Pnumber>
<P3para>
<Text>
<Addition ChangeId="d30p16372" CommentaryRef="c780193">details of any action recommended by the Local Commissioner in his further report which the authority have not taken;</Addition>
</Text>
</P3para>
</P3>
<P3 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1974/7/section/31/2E/b/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1974/7/section/31/2E/b" id="section-31-2E-b">
<Pnumber>
<Addition ChangeId="d30p16372" CommentaryRef="c780193">b</Addition>
</Pnumber>
<P3para>
<Text>
<Addition ChangeId="d30p16372" CommentaryRef="c780193">such supporting material as the Local Commissioner may require; and</Addition>
</Text>
</P3para>
</P3>
<P3 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1974/7/section/31/2E/c/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1974/7/section/31/2E/c" id="section-31-2E-c">
<Pnumber>
<Addition ChangeId="d30p16372" CommentaryRef="c780193">c</Addition>
</Pnumber>
<P3para>
<Text>
<Addition ChangeId="d30p16372" CommentaryRef="c780193">if the authority so require, a statement of the reasons for their having taken no action on, or not the action recommended in, the report.</Addition>
</Text>
</P3para>
</P3>
</P2para>
</P2>
<P2 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1974/7/section/31/2F/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1974/7/section/31/2F" id="section-31-2F">
<Pnumber>
<Addition ChangeId="d30p16372" CommentaryRef="c780193">2F</Addition>
</Pnumber>
<P2para>
<Text>
<Addition ChangeId="d30p16372" CommentaryRef="c780193">The requirements for the publication of the statement are that—</Addition>
</Text>
<P3 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1974/7/section/31/2F/a/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1974/7/section/31/2F/a" id="section-31-2F-a">
<Pnumber>
<Addition ChangeId="d30p16372" CommentaryRef="c780193">a</Addition>
</Pnumber>
<P3para>
<Text>
<Addition ChangeId="d30p16372" CommentaryRef="c780193">publication shall be in any two editions within a fortnight of a newspaper circulating in the area of the authority agreed with the Local Commissioner or, in default of agreement, nominated by him; and</Addition>
</Text>
</P3para>
</P3>
<P3 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1974/7/section/31/2F/b/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1974/7/section/31/2F/b" id="section-31-2F-b">
<Pnumber>
<Addition ChangeId="d30p16372" CommentaryRef="c780193">b</Addition>
</Pnumber>
<P3para>
<Text>
<Addition ChangeId="d30p16372" CommentaryRef="c780193">publication in the first such edition shall be arranged for the earliest practicable date.</Addition>
</Text>
</P3para>
</P3>
</P2para>
</P2>
<P2 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1974/7/section/31/2G/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1974/7/section/31/2G" id="section-31-2G">
<Pnumber>
<Addition ChangeId="d30p16372" CommentaryRef="c780193">2G</Addition>
</Pnumber>
<P2para>
<Text>
<Addition ChangeId="d30p16372" CommentaryRef="c780193">If the authority concerned—</Addition>
</Text>
<P3 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1974/7/section/31/2G/a/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1974/7/section/31/2G/a" id="section-31-2G-a">
<Pnumber>
<Addition ChangeId="d30p16372" CommentaryRef="c780193">a</Addition>
</Pnumber>
<P3para>
<Text>
<Addition ChangeId="d30p16372" CommentaryRef="c780193">fail to arrange for the publication of the statement in accordance with subsections (2E) and (2F) above, or</Addition>
</Text>
</P3para>
</P3>
<P3 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1974/7/section/31/2G/b/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1974/7/section/31/2G/b" id="section-31-2G-b">
<Pnumber>
<Addition ChangeId="d30p16372" CommentaryRef="c780193">b</Addition>
</Pnumber>
<P3para>
<Text>
<Addition ChangeId="d30p16372" CommentaryRef="c780193">are unable, within the period of one month beginning with the date on which they received the notice under subsection (2D) above, or such longer period as the Local Commissioner may agree in writing, to agree with the Local Commissioner the form of the statement to be published,</Addition>
</Text>
</P3para>
</P3>
<Text>
<Addition ChangeId="d30p16372" CommentaryRef="c780193">the Local Commissioner shall arrange for such a statement as is mentioned in subsection (2E) above to be published in any two editions within a fortnight of a newspaper circulating within the authority’s area.</Addition>
</Text>
</P2para>
</P2>
<P2 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1974/7/section/31/2H/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1974/7/section/31/2H" id="section-31-2H">
<Pnumber>
<Addition ChangeId="d30p16372" CommentaryRef="c780193">2H</Addition>
</Pnumber>
<P2para>
<Text>
<Addition ChangeId="d30p16372" CommentaryRef="c780193">The authority concerned shall reimburse the Commission on demand any reasonable expenses incurred by the Local Commissioner in performing his duty under subsection (2G) above.</Addition>
</Text>
</P2para>
</P2>
<P2 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1974/7/section/31/3/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1974/7/section/31/3" id="section-31-3">
<Pnumber>
<Addition ChangeId="d30p16519" CommentaryRef="c780194">3</Addition>
</Pnumber>
<P2para>
<Text>
<Addition ChangeId="d30p16519" CommentaryRef="c780194">In any case where—</Addition>
</Text>
<P3 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1974/7/section/31/3/a/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1974/7/section/31/3/a" id="section-31-3-a">
<Pnumber>
<Addition ChangeId="d30p16519" CommentaryRef="c780194">a</Addition>
</Pnumber>
<P3para>
<Text>
<Addition ChangeId="d30p16519" CommentaryRef="c780194">a report is laid before an authority under subsection </Addition>
<Addition ChangeId="d30p16519" CommentaryRef="c780194">
<Addition ChangeId="d30p16533" CommentaryRef="c780195">(2) or (2C)</Addition>
</Addition>
<Addition ChangeId="d30p16519" CommentaryRef="c780194"> above, and</Addition>
</Text>
</P3para>
</P3>
<P3 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1974/7/section/31/3/b/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1974/7/section/31/3/b" id="section-31-3-b">
<Pnumber>
<Addition ChangeId="d30p16519" CommentaryRef="c780194">b</Addition>
</Pnumber>
<P3para>
<Text>
<Addition ChangeId="d30p16519" CommentaryRef="c780194">on consideration of the report, it appears to the authority that a payment should be made to, or some other benefit should be provided for, a person who has suffered injustice in consequence of maladministration </Addition>
<Addition ChangeId="d30p16519" CommentaryRef="c780194">
<Addition ChangeId="d30p16543" CommentaryRef="c780196">to which the report relates</Addition>
</Addition>
<Addition ChangeId="d30p16519" CommentaryRef="c780194">,</Addition>
</Text>
</P3para>
</P3>
<Text>
<Addition ChangeId="d30p16519" CommentaryRef="c780194">the authority may incur such expenditure as appears to them to be appropriate in making such a payment or providing such a benefit.</Addition>
</Text>
</P2para>
</P2>
</P1para>
</P1>
</P1group>
<P1group RestrictEndDate="1991-04-01" RestrictExtent="E+W">
<Title>
<Addition ChangeId="d30p16742" CommentaryRef="c780210">
Consideration of adverse reports.
<CommentaryRef Ref="c780211"/>
</Addition>
</Title>
<P1 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1974/7/section/31A/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1974/7/section/31A" id="section-31A">
<Pnumber>
<Addition ChangeId="d30p16742" CommentaryRef="c780210">31A</Addition>
</Pnumber>
<P1para>
<P2 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1974/7/section/31A/1/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1974/7/section/31A/1" id="section-31A-1">
<Pnumber>
<Addition ChangeId="d30p16742" CommentaryRef="c780210">1</Addition>
</Pnumber>
<P2para>
<Text>
<Addition ChangeId="d30p16742" CommentaryRef="c780210">Subject to subsection (3) below, any power of an authority to have their functions discharged by any person or body of persons acting for the authority shall, as respects the consideration of a further report of the Local Commissioner under section 31(2A) above, be subject to the restriction that, if it is proposed that the authority should take no action on, or not the action recommended in, the report, consideration of the report shall be referred to the authority.</Addition>
</Text>
</P2para>
</P2>
<P2 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1974/7/section/31A/2/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1974/7/section/31A/2" id="section-31A-2">
<Pnumber>
<Addition ChangeId="d30p16742" CommentaryRef="c780210">2</Addition>
</Pnumber>
<P2para>
<Text>
<Addition ChangeId="d30p16742" CommentaryRef="c780210">Consideration of a further report of the Local Commissioner under section 31(2A) above by any such committee of a local authority as is referred to in an enactment specified in section 101(9) of the Local Government Act 1972 or by any appeal committee constituted in accordance with paragraph 1 of Schedule 2 to the Education Act 1980 shall be subject to a corresponding restriction.</Addition>
</Text>
</P2para>
</P2>
<P2 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1974/7/section/31A/3/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1974/7/section/31A/3" RestrictEndDate="2011-04-01" id="section-31A-3">
<Pnumber>
<Addition ChangeId="d30p16742" CommentaryRef="c780210">3</Addition>
</Pnumber>
<P2para>
<Text>
<Addition ChangeId="d30p16742" CommentaryRef="c780210">The restriction imposed by subsections (1) and (2) above does not apply where the report recommends action to be taken by—</Addition>
</Text>
<P3 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1974/7/section/31A/3/a/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1974/7/section/31A/3/a" id="section-31A-3-a">
<Pnumber>
<Addition ChangeId="d30p16742" CommentaryRef="c780210">a</Addition>
</Pnumber>
<P3para>
<Text>
<Addition ChangeId="d30p16742" CommentaryRef="c780210">a joint committee established under the said section 101, or</Addition>
</Text>
</P3para>
</P3>
<P3 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1974/7/section/31A/3/b/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1974/7/section/31A/3/b" RestrictEndDate="2011-04-01" id="section-31A-3-b">
<Pnumber>
<Addition ChangeId="d30p16742" CommentaryRef="c780210">b</Addition>
</Pnumber>
<P3para>
<Text>
<Addition ChangeId="d30p16742" CommentaryRef="c780210">any committee referred to in an enactment specified in paragraph (c), (d) or (h) of the said section 101(9).</Addition>
</Text>
</P3para>
</P3>
</P2para>
</P2>
<P2 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1974/7/section/31A/4/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1974/7/section/31A/4" id="section-31A-4">
<Pnumber>
<Addition ChangeId="d30p16742" CommentaryRef="c780210">4</Addition>
</Pnumber>
<P2para>
<Text>
<Addition ChangeId="d30p16742" CommentaryRef="c780210">If an authority considering a further report of the Local Commissioner under section 31(2A) above take into consideration a report by a person or body with an interest in the Local Commissioner’s report, they shall not conclude their consideration of the Local Commissioner’s report without also having taken into consideration a report by a person or body with no interest in the Local Commissioner’s report.</Addition>
</Text>
</P2para>
</P2>
<P2 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1974/7/section/31A/5/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1974/7/section/31A/5" id="section-31A-5">
<Pnumber>
<Addition ChangeId="d30p16742" CommentaryRef="c780210">5</Addition>
</Pnumber>
<P2para>
<Text>
<Addition ChangeId="d30p16742" CommentaryRef="c780210">No member of an authority to which this Part of this Act applies or of a committee mentioned in subsection (2) or (3) above shall vote on any question with respect to a report or further report under this Part of this Act in which he is named and criticised by a Local Commissioner.</Addition>
</Text>
</P2para>
</P2>
<P2 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1974/7/section/31A/6/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1974/7/section/31A/6" id="section-31A-6">
<Pnumber>
<Addition ChangeId="d30p16742" CommentaryRef="c780210">6</Addition>
</Pnumber>
<P2para>
<Text>
<Addition ChangeId="d30p16742" CommentaryRef="c780210">Section 25(4) and (5) above do not apply to this section.</Addition>
</Text>
</P2para>
</P2>
</P1para>
</P1>
</P1group>
<P1group RestrictEndDate="1991-04-01" RestrictExtent="E+W">
<Title>
Law of defamation, and disclosure of information.
<CommentaryRef Ref="c780233"/>
</Title>
<P1 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1974/7/section/32/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1974/7/section/32" id="section-32">
<Pnumber>32</Pnumber>
<P1para>
<P2 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1974/7/section/32/1/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1974/7/section/32/1" id="section-32-1">
<Pnumber>1</Pnumber>
<P2para>
<Text>For the purposes of the law of defamation, any such publication as is hereinafter mentioned shall be absolutely privileged, that is to say—</Text>
<P3 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1974/7/section/32/1/a/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1974/7/section/32/1/a" id="section-32-1-a">
<Pnumber>a</Pnumber>
<P3para>
<Text>
the publication of any matter in communications between a member
<Addition ChangeId="d30p17026" CommentaryRef="c780234">or officer</Addition>
of an authority and a Local Commissioner, or any officer of either Commission, for the purposes of this Part of this Act;
</Text>
</P3para>
</P3>
<P3 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1974/7/section/32/1/b/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1974/7/section/32/1/b" id="section-32-1-b">
<Pnumber>b</Pnumber>
<P3para>
<Text>the publication of any matter by a Local Commissioner or by any officer of either Commission, in communicating with a complainant for the purposes of this Part of this Act;</Text>
</P3para>
</P3>
<P3 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1974/7/section/32/1/c/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1974/7/section/32/1/c" id="section-32-1-c">
<Pnumber>c</Pnumber>
<P3para>
<Text>
the publication of any matter in preparing, making and sending a report or statement in accordance with section 30 or section 31 above, or, subject to section 30(7) above, in making a report available to the public
<Addition ChangeId="d30p17042" CommentaryRef="c780235">or in supplying a copy under section 30(4A) above</Addition>
;
</Text>
</P3para>
</P3>
<P3 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1974/7/section/32/1/d/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1974/7/section/32/1/d" id="section-32-1-d">
<Pnumber>d</Pnumber>
<P3para>
<Text>the publication of any matter contained in a report by a Local Commissioner which has been made available to the public, being publication by inclusion in a report made or published under section 24 above.</Text>
</P3para>
</P3>
<P3 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1974/7/section/32/1/e/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1974/7/section/32/1/e" id="section-32-1-e">
<Pnumber>
<Addition ChangeId="d30p17052" CommentaryRef="c780236">e</Addition>
</Pnumber>
<P3para>
<Text>
<Addition ChangeId="d30p17052" CommentaryRef="c780236">the publication of any matter by inclusion in a statement published in accordance with section 31(2D), (2E) and (2F) or (2G) above.</Addition>
</Text>
</P3para>
</P3>
</P2para>
</P2>
<P2 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1974/7/section/32/2/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1974/7/section/32/2" id="section-32-2">
<Pnumber>2</Pnumber>
<P2para>
<Text>Information obtained by a Local Commissioner, or any officer of either Commission, in the course of or for the purposes of an investigation under this Part of this Act shall not be disclosed except—</Text>
<P3 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1974/7/section/32/2/a/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1974/7/section/32/2/a" id="section-32-2-a">
<Pnumber>a</Pnumber>
<P3para>
<Text>for the purposes of the investigation and of any report to be made under section 30 or section 31 above; or</Text>
</P3para>
</P3>
<P3 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1974/7/section/32/2/b/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1974/7/section/32/2/b" id="section-32-2-b">
<Pnumber>
<CommentaryRef Ref="c780237"/>
b
</Pnumber>
<P3para>
<Text>for the purposes of any proceedings for an offence under the Official Secrets Acts 1911 to 1939 alleged to have been committed in respect of information obtained, by virtue of this Part of this Act, by a Local Commissioner or by an officer of either Commission or for an offence of perjury alleged to have been committed in the course of an investigation under this Part of this Act or for the purposes of an inquiry with a view to the taking of such proceedings, or</Text>
</P3para>
</P3>
<P3 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1974/7/section/32/2/c/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1974/7/section/32/2/c" id="section-32-2-c">
<Pnumber>c</Pnumber>
<P3para>
<Text>for the purpose of any proceedings under section 29(9) above,</Text>
</P3para>
</P3>
<Text>and a Local Commissioner and the officers of his Commission shall not be called upon to give evidence in any proceedings (other than proceedings within paragraph (b) or (c) above) of matters coming to his or their knowledge in the course of an investigation under this Part of this Act.</Text>
</P2para>
</P2>
<P2 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1974/7/section/32/3/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1974/7/section/32/3" RestrictEndDate="2018-04-01" id="section-32-3">
<Pnumber>3</Pnumber>
<P2para>
<Text>
A Minister of the Crown or any of the authorities mentioned in section 25(1) above may give notice in writing to a Local Commissioner with respect to any document or information specified in the notice, or any class of documents or information so specified, that in the opinion of the Minister, or as the case may be of the authority, the disclosure of that document or information, or of documents or information of that class, would be contrary to the public interest; and where such a notice is given nothing in this Part of this Act shall be construed as authorising or requiring
<Addition ChangeId="d30p17093" CommentaryRef="c780238">the Local Commissioner or any member of the staff of a Commission who is allocated to assist him</Addition>
to communicate to any other person, or for any purpose, any document or information specified in the notice, or any document or information of a class so specified:
</Text>
</P2para>
<P2para>
<Text>Provided that a notice given under this subsection by any authority may be discharged by the Secretary of State.</Text>
</P2para>
</P2>
<P2 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1974/7/section/32/4/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1974/7/section/32/4" id="section-32-4">
<Pnumber>4</Pnumber>
<P2para>
<Text>Nothing in subsection (3) above shall affect the obligations imposed by subsections (3) and (4) of section 29 above.</Text>
</P2para>
</P2>
<P2 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1974/7/section/32/5/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1974/7/section/32/5" id="section-32-5">
<Pnumber>5</Pnumber>
<P2para>
<Text>Where information is disclosed in accordance with section 29(3) above, being information which is derived from a communication from a government department, and which has not been made public, a Local Commissioner shall not without the written consent of an officer of the government department make a report which includes all or any of that information unless he has given the department not less than one month’s notice in writing of his intention.</Text>
</P2para>
</P2>
<P2 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1974/7/section/32/6/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1974/7/section/32/6" id="section-32-6">
<Pnumber>6</Pnumber>
<P2para>
<Text>The provisions of this section shall apply to the Commissioners of Customs and Excise and Commissioners of Inland Revenue as they apply to a Minister of the Crown.</Text>
</P2para>
</P2>
</P1para>
</P1>
</P1group>
<P1group RestrictEndDate="1991-04-01" RestrictExtent="E+W">
<Title>
Consultation between Local Commissioner, the Parliamentary Commissioner and the Health Service Commissioners.
<CommentaryRef Ref="c780273"/>
</Title>
<P1 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1974/7/section/33/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1974/7/section/33" id="section-33">
<Pnumber>33</Pnumber>
<P1para>
<P2 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1974/7/section/33/1/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1974/7/section/33/1" id="section-33-1">
<Pnumber>1</Pnumber>
<P2para>
<Text>If, at any stage in the course of conducting an investigation under this Part of this Act, a Local Commissioner forms the opinion that the complaint relates partly to a matter which could be the subject of an investigation—</Text>
<P3 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1974/7/section/33/1/a/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1974/7/section/33/1/a" id="section-33-1-a">
<Pnumber>a</Pnumber>
<P3para>
<Text>by the Parliamentary Commissioner, in accordance with section 5 of the Act of 1967, or</Text>
</P3para>
</P3>
<P3 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1974/7/section/33/1/b/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1974/7/section/33/1/b" id="section-33-1-b">
<Pnumber>b</Pnumber>
<P3para>
<Text>
by the Health Service Commissioner for England or the Health Service Commissioner for Wales, in accordance with
<Addition ChangeId="d30p17391" CommentaryRef="c780274">sections 109, 110, 113, 115 and 116 of the </Addition>
<Addition ChangeId="d30p17391" CommentaryRef="c780274">
<CommentaryRef Ref="c780275"/>
National Health Service Act 1977
</Addition>
,
</Text>
</P3para>
</P3>
<Text>
he shall consult with the appropriate Commissioner about the complaint and, if he considers it necessary, inform the person initiating the complaint under this Part of this Act of the steps necessary to initiate a complaint under the Act of 1967 or under
<Addition ChangeId="d30p17399" CommentaryRef="c780274">Part V of the Act of 1977</Addition>
, as the case may be.
</Text>
</P2para>
</P2>
<P2 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1974/7/section/33/2/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1974/7/section/33/2" id="section-33-2">
<Pnumber>2</Pnumber>
<P2para>
<Text>Where, by virtue of subsection (1) above, a Local Commissioner consults the Parliamentary Commissioner or one of the Health Service Commissioners in relation to a complaint under this Part of this Act, he may consult that Commissioner about any matter relating to the complaint, including—</Text>
<P3 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1974/7/section/33/2/a/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1974/7/section/33/2/a" id="section-33-2-a">
<Pnumber>a</Pnumber>
<P3para>
<Text>the conduct of any investigation into the complaint, and</Text>
</P3para>
</P3>
<P3 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1974/7/section/33/2/b/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1974/7/section/33/2/b" id="section-33-2-b">
<Pnumber>b</Pnumber>
<P3para>
<Text>the form, content and publication of any report of the results of such an investigation.</Text>
</P3para>
</P3>
</P2para>
</P2>
<P2 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1974/7/section/33/3/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1974/7/section/33/3" id="section-33-3">
<Pnumber>3</Pnumber>
<P2para>
<Text>If, at any stage in the course of conducting an investigation under—</Text>
<P3 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1974/7/section/33/3/a/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1974/7/section/33/3/a" id="section-33-3-a">
<Pnumber>a</Pnumber>
<P3para>
<Text>the Act of 1967, or</Text>
</P3para>
</P3>
<P3 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1974/7/section/33/3/b/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1974/7/section/33/3/b" id="section-33-3-b">
<Pnumber>b</Pnumber>
<P3para>
<Text>
<Addition ChangeId="d30p17438" CommentaryRef="c780277">Part V of the Act of 1977</Addition>
,
</Text>
</P3para>
</P3>
<Text>
the Commissioner conducting the investigation forms the opinion that the complaint relates partly to a matter which could be the subject of investigation under this Part of this Act, he shall consult with the appropriate Local Commissioner about the complaint and, if he considers it necessary, inform the person initiating the complaint under the Act of 1967 or
<Addition ChangeId="d30p17444" CommentaryRef="c780277">Part V of the Act of 1977</Addition>
, as the case may be, of the steps necessary to initiate a complaint under this Part of this Act.
</Text>
</P2para>
</P2>
<P2 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1974/7/section/33/4/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1974/7/section/33/4" id="section-33-4">
<Pnumber>4</Pnumber>
<P2para>
<Text>
Where, by virtue of subsection (3) above, a Local Commissioner is consulted about a complaint under the Act of 1967 or
<Addition ChangeId="d30p17454" CommentaryRef="c780279">Part V of the Act of 1977</Addition>
, subsection (2) above shall apply (with the necessary modifications) as it applies in relation to consultations held by virtue of subsection (1) above.
</Text>
</P2para>
</P2>
<P2 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1974/7/section/33/5/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1974/7/section/33/5" id="section-33-5">
<Pnumber>5</Pnumber>
<P2para>
<Text>
Nothing in section 11(2) of the Act of 1967, in
<Addition ChangeId="d30p17464" CommentaryRef="c780280">paragraph 16 of Schedule 13 to the Act of 1977</Addition>
, or in section 32(2) of this Act (restrictions of disclosure of information) shall apply in relation to the disclosure of information by any of the Commissioners mentioned in this section, or by any of their officers, in the course of consultations held in accordance with this section.
</Text>
</P2para>
</P2>
<P2 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1974/7/section/33/6/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1974/7/section/33/6" id="section-33-6">
<Pnumber>6</Pnumber>
<P2para>
<Text>
In this section the “
<Term id="term-act-of-1967">Act of 1967</Term>
” means the
<CommentaryRef Ref="c780281"/>
Parliamentary Commissioner Act 1967 and
<Addition ChangeId="d30p17479" CommentaryRef="c780282">the “</Addition>
<Term id="term-act-of-1977">
<Addition ChangeId="d30p17479" CommentaryRef="c780282">Act of 1977</Addition>
</Term>
<Addition ChangeId="d30p17479" CommentaryRef="c780282">” means the </Addition>
<Addition ChangeId="d30p17479" CommentaryRef="c780282">
<CommentaryRef Ref="c780283"/>
National Health Service Act 1977
</Addition>
.
</Text>
</P2para>
</P2>
</P1para>
</P1>
</P1group>
<P1group RestrictEndDate="2012-01-15" RestrictStartDate="2001-01-30" Match="false">
<Title>
<Addition ChangeId="d30p2730" CommentaryRef="c780321"> Disclosure of information by Local Commissioner to Information Commissioner.</Addition>
</Title>
<P1 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1974/7/section/33A/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1974/7/section/33A" id="section-33A">
<Pnumber>
<Addition ChangeId="d30p2730" CommentaryRef="c780321">33A</Addition>
</Pnumber>
<P1para>
<P2 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1974/7/section/33A/1/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1974/7/section/33A/1" id="section-33A-1">
<Pnumber>
<Addition ChangeId="d30p2730" CommentaryRef="c780321">1</Addition>
</Pnumber>
<P2para>
<Text>
<Addition ChangeId="d30p2730" CommentaryRef="c780321">A Local Commissioner may disclose to the Information Commissioner any information obtained by, or furnished to, the Local Commissioner under or for the purposes of this Part of this Act if the information appears to the Local Commissioner to relate to—</Addition>
</Text>
<P3 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1974/7/section/33A/1/a/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1974/7/section/33A/1/a" id="section-33A-1-a">
<Pnumber>
<Addition ChangeId="d30p2730" CommentaryRef="c780321">a</Addition>
</Pnumber>
<P3para>
<Text>
<Addition ChangeId="d30p2730" CommentaryRef="c780321">a matter in respect of which the Information Commissioner could exercise any power conferred by—</Addition>
</Text>
<P4 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1974/7/section/33A/1/a/i/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1974/7/section/33A/1/a/i" id="section-33A-1-a-i">
<Pnumber>
<Addition ChangeId="d30p2730" CommentaryRef="c780321">i</Addition>
</Pnumber>
<P4para>
<Text>
<Addition ChangeId="d30p2730" CommentaryRef="c780321">Part V of the Data Protection Act 1998 (enforcement),</Addition>
</Text>
</P4para>
</P4>
<P4 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1974/7/section/33A/1/a/ii/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1974/7/section/33A/1/a/ii" id="section-33A-1-a-ii">
<Pnumber>
<Addition ChangeId="d30p2730" CommentaryRef="c780321">ii</Addition>
</Pnumber>
<P4para>
<Text>
<Addition ChangeId="d30p2730" CommentaryRef="c780321">section 48 of the Freedom of Information Act 2000 (practice recommendations), or</Addition>
</Text>
</P4para>
</P4>
<P4 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1974/7/section/33A/1/a/iii/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1974/7/section/33A/1/a/iii" id="section-33A-1-a-iii">
<Pnumber>
<Addition ChangeId="d30p2730" CommentaryRef="c780321">iii</Addition>
</Pnumber>
<P4para>
<Text>
<Addition ChangeId="d30p2730" CommentaryRef="c780321">Part IV of that Act (enforcement), or</Addition>
</Text>
</P4para>
</P4>
</P3para>
</P3>
<P3 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1974/7/section/33A/1/b/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1974/7/section/33A/1/b" id="section-33A-1-b">
<Pnumber>
<Addition ChangeId="d30p2730" CommentaryRef="c780321">b</Addition>
</Pnumber>
<P3para>
<Text>
<Addition ChangeId="d30p2730" CommentaryRef="c780321">the commission of an offence under—</Addition>
</Text>
<P4 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1974/7/section/33A/1/b/i/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1974/7/section/33A/1/b/i" id="section-33A-1-b-i">
<Pnumber>
<Addition ChangeId="d30p2730" CommentaryRef="c780321">i</Addition>
</Pnumber>
<P4para>
<Text>
<Addition ChangeId="d30p2730" CommentaryRef="c780321">any provision of the Data Protection Act 1998 other than paragraph 12 of Schedule 9 (obstruction of execution of warrant), or</Addition>
</Text>
</P4para>
</P4>
<P4 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1974/7/section/33A/1/b/ii/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1974/7/section/33A/1/b/ii" id="section-33A-1-b-ii">
<Pnumber>
<Addition ChangeId="d30p2730" CommentaryRef="c780321">ii</Addition>
</Pnumber>
<P4para>
<Text>
<Addition ChangeId="d30p2730" CommentaryRef="c780321">section 77 of the Freedom of Information Act 2000 (offence of altering etc. records with intent to prevent disclosure).</Addition>
</Text>
</P4para>
</P4>
</P3para>
</P3>
</P2para>
</P2>
<P2 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1974/7/section/33A/2/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1974/7/section/33A/2" id="section-33A-2">
<Pnumber>
<Addition ChangeId="d30p2730" CommentaryRef="c780321">2</Addition>
</Pnumber>
<P2para>
<Text>
<Addition ChangeId="d30p2730" CommentaryRef="c780321">Nothing in section 32(2) of this Act shall apply in relation to the disclosure of information in accordance with this section.</Addition>
</Text>
</P2para>
</P2>
</P1para>
</P1>
</P1group>
<P1group RestrictEndDate="1991-04-01" RestrictExtent="E+W">
<Title>
Interpretation of Part III.
<CommentaryRef Ref="c780322"/>
</Title>
<P1 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1974/7/section/34/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1974/7/section/34" id="section-34">
<Pnumber>34</Pnumber>
<P1para>
<P2 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1974/7/section/34/1/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1974/7/section/34/1" id="section-34-1">
<Pnumber>1</Pnumber>
<P2para>
<Text>In this Part of this Act, unless the context otherwise requires—</Text>
<UnorderedList Decoration="none" Class="Definition">
<ListItem>
<Para>
<Text>
<Term id="term-action">action</Term>
” includes failure to act, and other expressions connoting action shall be construed accordingly,
</Text>
</Para>
</ListItem>
<ListItem>
<Para>
<Text>
<Term id="term-the-commissions">the Commissions</Term>
” means the Commission for Local Administration in England and the Commission for Local Administration in Wales,
</Text>
</Para>
</ListItem>
<ListItem>
<Para>
<Text>
<Term id="term-local-authority">local authority</Term>
” means a county council, . . .
<CommentaryRef Ref="c780323"/>
a district council,
<Addition ChangeId="d30p17755" CommentaryRef="c780324">the Broads Authority</Addition>
, a London borough council, the Common Council of the City of London, or the Council of the Isles of Scilly,
</Text>
</Para>
</ListItem>
<ListItem>
<Para>
<Text>
<Term id="term-member">member</Term>
”, in relation to a joint board, includes a member of any of the constituent authorities of the joint board,
</Text>
</Para>
</ListItem>
<ListItem>
<Para>
<Text>
<Term id="term-person-aggrieved">person aggrieved</Term>
” means the person who claims or is alleged to have sustained any such injustice as is mentioned in section 26(1) above,
</Text>
</Para>
</ListItem>
<ListItem>
<Para>
<Text>
<Term id="term-parliamentary-commissioner">Parliamentary Commissioner</Term>
” means the Parliamentary Commissioner for Administration,
</Text>
</Para>
</ListItem>
<ListItem>
<Para>
<Text>
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
<CommentaryRef Ref="c780325"/>
</Text>
</Para>
</ListItem>
<ListItem>
<Para>
<Text>
<Term id="term-tribunal">tribunal</Term>
” includes the person constituting a tribunal consisting of one person.
</Text>
</Para>
</ListItem>
</UnorderedList>
</P2para>
</P2>
<P2 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1974/7/section/34/2/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1974/7/section/34/2" id="section-34-2">
<Pnumber>2</Pnumber>
<P2para>
<Text>
Section 269 of the
<CommentaryRef Ref="c780326"/>
Local Government Act 1972 (which relates to the meaning of “
<Term id="term-england">England</Term>
” and “
<Term id="term-wales">Wales</Term>
” in Acts passed after 1st April 1974) shall apply to this Part of this Act as if it had been passed after that date.
</Text>
</P2para>
</P2>
<P2 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1974/7/section/34/3/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1974/7/section/34/3" id="section-34-3">
<Pnumber>3</Pnumber>
<P2para>
<Text>It is hereby declared that nothing in this Part of this Act authorises or requires a Local Commissioner to question the merits of a decision taken without maladministration by an authority in the exercise of a discretion vested in that authority.</Text>
</P2para>
</P2>
</P1para>
</P1>
</P1group>
</Part>
</Body>
</Primary>
<Commentaries>
<Commentary id="c779613" Type="F">
<Para>
<Text>
<CitationSubRef id="c00259" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1974/7/section/23A" SectionRef="section-23A">S. 23A</CitationSubRef>
inserted by
<Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1989/42" id="c00260" Year="1989" Class="UnitedKingdomPublicGeneralAct" Number="42" Title="Local Government and Housing Act 1989">Local Government and Housing Act 1989 (c. 42, SIF 81:1)</Citation>
,
<CitationSubRef id="c00261" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1989/42/section/25/2" Operative="true" CitationRef="c00260" SectionRef="section-25-2">s. 25(2)</CitationSubRef>
</Text>
</Para>
</Commentary>
<Commentary id="c779614" Type="C">
<Para>
<Text>
<CitationSubRef id="c00262" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1974/7/section/23A" SectionRef="section-23A">S. 23A</CitationSubRef>
extended (W.) (28.7.2001) by
<Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/uksi/2001/2275" id="c00263" Class="UnitedKingdomStatutoryInstrument" Year="2001" Number="2275">S.I. 2001/2275</Citation>
,
<CitationSubRef id="c00264" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/uksi/2001/2275/regulation/3" Operative="true" CitationRef="c00263" SectionRef="regulation-3">reg. 3</CitationSubRef>
</Text>
</Para>
</Commentary>
<Commentary id="c779615" Type="F">
<Para>
<Text>
<CitationSubRef id="c00265" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1974/7/section/24" SectionRef="section-24">S. 24</CitationSubRef>
repealed by
<Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1989/42" id="c00266" Year="1989" Class="UnitedKingdomPublicGeneralAct" Number="42" Title="Local Government and Housing Act 1989">Local Government and Housing Act 1989 (c. 42, SIF 81:1, 2)</Citation>
,
<CitationSubRef id="c00267" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1989/42/section/25/1" CitationRef="c00266" SectionRef="section-25-1">ss. 25(1)</CitationSubRef>
,
<CitationSubRef id="c00268" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1989/42/section/194/4" CitationRef="c00266" SectionRef="section-194-4">194(4)</CitationSubRef>
,
<CitationSubRef id="c00269" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1989/42/schedule/12/part/II" Operative="true" CitationRef="c00266" SectionRef="schedule-12-part-II">Sch. 12 Pt. II</CitationSubRef>
</Text>
</Para>
</Commentary>
<Commentary id="c780321" Type="F">
<Para>
<Text>
<CitationSubRef id="c00972" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1974/7/section/33A" SectionRef="section-33A">S. 33A</CitationSubRef>
inserted (30.1.2001) by
<Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/2000/36" id="c00973" Year="2000" Class="UnitedKingdomPublicGeneralAct" Number="36">2000 c. 36</Citation>
,
<CitationSubRef id="c00974" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/2000/36/section/76/2" CitationRef="c00973" SectionRef="section-76-2">ss. 76(2)</CitationSubRef>
,
<CitationSubRef id="c00975" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/2000/36/section/87/2" CitationRef="c00973" SectionRef="section-87-2">87(2)</CitationSubRef>
,
<CitationSubRef id="c00976" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/2000/36/schedule/7/paragraph/4" Operative="true" CitationRef="c00973" SectionRef="schedule-7-paragraph-4">Sch. 7 para. 4</CitationSubRef>
(with
<CitationSubRef id="c00977" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/2000/36/section/56" CitationRef="c00973" SectionRef="section-56">ss. 56</CitationSubRef>
,
<CitationSubRef id="c00978" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/2000/36/section/78" CitationRef="c00973" SectionRef="section-78">78</CitationSubRef>
)
</Text>
</Para>
</Commentary>
<Commentary id="c779574" Type="C">
<Para>
<Text>
<CitationSubRef id="c01474" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1974/7/part/III" SectionRef="part-III">Pt. III</CitationSubRef>
(ss. 23-34) applied (with modifications) (1.4.1998) by
<Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/uksi/1998/633" id="c01475" Class="UnitedKingdomStatutoryInstrument" Year="1998" Number="633">S.I. 1998/633</Citation>
, art. L
</Text>
</Para>
</Commentary>
<Commentary id="c779575" Type="C">
<Para>
<Text>
Power to make provision about matters of the kind dealt with by Pt. III (ss. 23-34) conferred (1.9.1997) by
<Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1997/50" id="c01476" Year="1997" Class="UnitedKingdomPublicGeneralAct" Number="50">1997 c. 50</Citation>
,
<CitationSubRef id="c01477" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1997/50/section/44/1" CitationRef="c01476" SectionRef="section-44-1">s. 44(1)</CitationSubRef>
,
<CitationSubRef id="c01478" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1997/50/schedule/4" Operative="true" CitationRef="c01476" SectionRef="schedule-4">Sch. 4</CitationSubRef>
para. (b);
<Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/uksi/1997/1930" id="c01479" Class="UnitedKingdomStatutoryInstrument" Year="1997" Number="1930">S.I. 1997/1930</Citation>
,
<CitationSubRef id="c01480" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/uksi/1997/1930/article/3/1/2/m" Operative="true" CitationRef="c01479" SectionRef="article-3-1-2-m">art. 3(1)(2)(m)</CitationSubRef>
</Text>
</Para>
</Commentary>
<Commentary id="c779576" Type="C">
<Para>
<Text>
<CitationSubRef id="c01481" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1974/7/part/III" SectionRef="part-III">Pt. III</CitationSubRef>
(ss. 23-34) applied (
<Emphasis>temp.</Emphasis>
from 4.5.1995 to 31.3.1996) by
<Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/uksi/1995/1042" id="c01482" Class="UnitedKingdomStatutoryInstrument" Year="1995" Number="1042">S.I. 1995/1042</Citation>
,
<CitationSubRef id="c01483" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/uksi/1995/1042/article/4/1" Operative="true" CitationRef="c01482" SectionRef="article-4-1">art. 4(1)</CitationSubRef>
</Text>
</Para>
</Commentary>
<Commentary id="c779577" Type="C">
<Para>
<Text>
<CitationSubRef id="c01484" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1974/7/part/III" SectionRef="part-III">Pt. III</CitationSubRef>
(ss. 23-34) restricted (30.7.1993) by
<Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/uksi/1993/1975" id="c01485" Class="UnitedKingdomStatutoryInstrument" Year="1993" Number="1975">S.I. 1993/1975</Citation>
,
<CitationSubRef id="c01486" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/uksi/1993/1975/article/10" CitationRef="c01485" SectionRef="article-10">art. 10</CitationSubRef>
,
<CitationSubRef id="c01487" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/uksi/1993/1975/schedule/2/paragraph/4/2" Operative="true" CitationRef="c01485" SectionRef="schedule-2-paragraph-4-2">Sch. 2 para. 4(2)</CitationSubRef>
.
</Text>
</Para>
</Commentary>
<Commentary id="c779578" Type="C">
<Para>
<Text>
<CitationSubRef id="c01488" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1974/7/part/III" SectionRef="part-III">Pt. III</CitationSubRef>
(ss. 23-34) power to extend, modify, apply or reproduce (with or without modifications) conferred (W.) (1.11.2000) and (E.) (28.7.2001) by
<Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/2000/22" id="c01489" Year="2000" Class="UnitedKingdomPublicGeneralAct" Number="22">2000 c. 22</Citation>
,
<CitationSubRef id="c01490" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/2000/22/section/68/3" Operative="true" CitationRef="c01489" SectionRef="section-68-3">ss. 68(3)</CitationSubRef>
,
<CitationSubRef id="c01491" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/2000/22/section/108/4" UpTo="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/2000/22/section/108/6" CitationRef="c01489" Type="group" StartSectionRef="section-108-4" EndSectionRef="section-108-6">108(4)-(6)</CitationSubRef>
;
<Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/uksi/2000/2948" id="c01492" Class="UnitedKingdomStatutoryInstrument" Year="2000" Number="2948">S.I. 2000/2948</Citation>
,
<CitationSubRef id="c01493" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/uksi/2000/2948/article/2" Operative="true" CitationRef="c01492" SectionRef="article-2">art. 2</CitationSubRef>
</Text>
</Para>
<Para>
<Text>
<CitationSubRef id="c01494" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1974/7/part/III" SectionRef="part-III">Pt. III</CitationSubRef>
(ss. 23-34) extended (W.) (28.7.2001) by
<Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/uksi/2001/2275" id="c01495" Class="UnitedKingdomStatutoryInstrument" Year="2001" Number="2275">S.I. 2001/2275</Citation>
,
<CitationSubRef id="c01496" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/uksi/2001/2275/regulation/2" Operative="true" CitationRef="c01495" SectionRef="regulation-2">reg. 2</CitationSubRef>
</Text>
</Para>
</Commentary>
<Commentary id="c779584" Type="F">
<Para>
<Text>
Words added by
<Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1989/42" id="c01497" Year="1989" Class="UnitedKingdomPublicGeneralAct" Number="42" Title="Local Government and Housing Act 1989">Local Government and Housing Act 1989 (c. 42, SIF 81:1)</Citation>
,
<CitationSubRef id="c01498" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1989/42/section/22/2" Operative="true" CitationRef="c01497" SectionRef="section-22-2">s. 22(2)</CitationSubRef>
</Text>
</Para>
</Commentary>
<Commentary id="c779585" Type="F">
<Para>
<Text>
Words inserted by
<Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1989/42" id="c01499" Year="1989" Class="UnitedKingdomPublicGeneralAct" Number="42" Title="Local Government and Housing Act 1989">Local Government and Housing Act 1989 (c. 42, SIF 81:1, 2)</Citation>
,
<CitationSubRef id="c01500" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1989/42/section/22/3" Operative="true" CitationRef="c01499" SectionRef="section-22-3">s. 22(3)</CitationSubRef>
</Text>
</Para>
</Commentary>
<Commentary id="c779586" Type="F">
<Para>
<Text>
Word repealed by
<Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1989/42" id="c01501" Year="1989" Class="UnitedKingdomPublicGeneralAct" Number="42" Title="Local Government and Housing Act 1989">Local Government and Housing Act 1989 (c. 42, SIF 81:1, 2)</Citation>
,
<CitationSubRef id="c01502" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1989/42/section/22/4" CitationRef="c01501" SectionRef="section-22-4">ss. 22(4)</CitationSubRef>
,
<CitationSubRef id="c01503" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1989/42/section/194/4" CitationRef="c01501" SectionRef="section-194-4">194(4)</CitationSubRef>
,
<CitationSubRef id="c01504" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1989/42/schedule/12/part/II" Operative="true" CitationRef="c01501" SectionRef="schedule-12-part-II">Sch. 12 Pt. II</CitationSubRef>
</Text>
</Para>
</Commentary>
<Commentary id="c779587" Type="F">
<Para>
<Text>
Words substituted by
<Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1989/42" id="c01505" Year="1989" Class="UnitedKingdomPublicGeneralAct" Number="42" Title="Local Government and Housing Act 1989">Local Government and Housing Act 1989 (c. 42, SIF 81:1)</Citation>
,
<CitationSubRef id="c01506" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1989/42/section/194/1" CitationRef="c01505" SectionRef="section-194-1">s. 194(1)</CitationSubRef>
,
<CitationSubRef id="c01507" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1989/42/schedule/11/paragraph/37" Operative="true" CitationRef="c01505" SectionRef="schedule-11-paragraph-37">Sch. 11 para. 37</CitationSubRef>
</Text>
</Para>
</Commentary>
<Commentary id="c779588" Type="F">
<Para>
<Text>
Word repealed by
<Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1989/42" id="c01508" Year="1989" Class="UnitedKingdomPublicGeneralAct" Number="42" Title="Local Government and Housing Act 1989">Local Government and Housing Act 1989 (c. 42, SIF 81:1, 2)</Citation>
,
<CitationSubRef id="c01509" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1989/42/section/22/4" CitationRef="c01508" SectionRef="section-22-4">ss. 22(4)</CitationSubRef>
,
<CitationSubRef id="c01510" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1989/42/section/194/4" CitationRef="c01508" SectionRef="section-194-4">194(4)</CitationSubRef>
,
<CitationSubRef id="c01511" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1989/42/schedule/12/part/II" Operative="true" CitationRef="c01508" SectionRef="schedule-12-part-II">Sch. 12 Pt. II</CitationSubRef>
</Text>
</Para>
</Commentary>
<Commentary id="c779590" Type="C">
<Para>
<Text>
<CitationSubRef id="c01512" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1974/7/section/23/12" SectionRef="section-23-12">S. 23(12)</CitationSubRef>
restricted by
<Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1988/9" id="c01513" Year="1988" Class="UnitedKingdomPublicGeneralAct" Number="9" Title="Local Government Act 1988">Local Government Act 1988 (c. 9, SIF 81:1, 2)</Citation>
,
<CitationSubRef id="c01514" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1988/9/section/29" CitationRef="c01513" SectionRef="section-29">s. 29</CitationSubRef>
,
<CitationSubRef id="c01515" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1988/9/schedule/3/paragraph/2/2" Operative="true" CitationRef="c01513" SectionRef="schedule-3-paragraph-2-2">Sch. 3 para. 2(2)</CitationSubRef>
</Text>
</Para>
</Commentary>
<Commentary id="c779591" Type="F">
<Para>
<Text>
Words substituted by
<Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1988/9" id="c01516" Year="1988" Class="UnitedKingdomPublicGeneralAct" Number="9" Title="Local Government Act 1988">Local Government Act 1988 (c. 9, SIF 81:1, 2)</Citation>
,
<CitationSubRef id="c01517" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1988/9/section/29" CitationRef="c01516" SectionRef="section-29">s. 29</CitationSubRef>
,
<CitationSubRef id="c01518" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1988/9/schedule/3/paragraph/2/1" Operative="true" CitationRef="c01516" SectionRef="schedule-3-paragraph-2-1">Sch. 3 para. 2(1)</CitationSubRef>
</Text>
</Para>
</Commentary>
<Commentary id="c779592" Type="F">
<Para>
<Text>
Words repealed by
<Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1989/42" id="c01519" Year="1989" Class="UnitedKingdomPublicGeneralAct" Number="42" Title="Local Government and Housing Act 1989">Local Government and Housing Act 1989 (c. 42, SIF 81:1, 2)</Citation>
,
<CitationSubRef id="c01520" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1989/42/section/194/1/4" CitationRef="c01519" SectionRef="section-194-1-4">s. 194(1)(4)</CitationSubRef>
,
<CitationSubRef id="c01521" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1989/42/schedule/11/paragraph/38" CitationRef="c01519" SectionRef="schedule-11-paragraph-38">Sch. 11 para. 38</CitationSubRef>
,
<CitationSubRef id="c01522" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1989/42/schedule/12/part/II" Operative="true" CitationRef="c01519" SectionRef="schedule-12-part-II">Sch. 12 Pt. II</CitationSubRef>
</Text>
</Para>
</Commentary>
<Commentary id="c779593" Type="F">
<Para>
<Text>
Words inserted by
<Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1989/42" id="c01523" Year="1989" Class="UnitedKingdomPublicGeneralAct" Number="42" Title="Local Government and Housing Act 1989">Local Government and Housing Act 1989 (c. 42, SIF 81:1, 2)</Citation>
,
<CitationSubRef id="c01524" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1989/42/section/194/1" CitationRef="c01523" SectionRef="section-194-1">s. 194(1)</CitationSubRef>
,
<CitationSubRef id="c01525" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1989/42/schedule/11/paragraph/38" Operative="true" CitationRef="c01523" SectionRef="schedule-11-paragraph-38">Sch. 11 para. 38</CitationSubRef>
</Text>
</Para>
</Commentary>
<Commentary id="c779594" Type="F">
<Para>
<Text>
<CitationSubRef id="c01526" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1974/7/section/23/12A/12B" SectionRef="section-23-12A-12B">S. 23(12A)(12B)</CitationSubRef>
inserted by
<Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1989/42" id="c01527" Year="1989" Class="UnitedKingdomPublicGeneralAct" Number="42" Title="Local Government and Housing Act 1989">Local Government and Housing Act 1989 (c. 42, SIF 81:1, 2)</Citation>
,
<CitationSubRef id="c01528" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1989/42/section/23/1" Operative="true" CitationRef="c01527" SectionRef="section-23-1">s. 23(1)</CitationSubRef>
</Text>
</Para>
</Commentary>
<Commentary id="c779616" Type="F">
<Para>
<Text>
Words inserted by
<Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1988/9" id="c01529" Year="1988" Class="UnitedKingdomPublicGeneralAct" Number="9" Title="Local Government Act 1988">Local Government Act 1988 (c. 9, SIF 81:1, 2)</Citation>
,
<CitationSubRef id="c01530" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1988/9/section/29" CitationRef="c01529" SectionRef="section-29">s. 29</CitationSubRef>
,
<CitationSubRef id="c01531" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1988/9/schedule/3/paragraph/4" Operative="true" CitationRef="c01529" SectionRef="schedule-3-paragraph-4">Sch. 3 para. 4</CitationSubRef>
</Text>
</Para>
</Commentary>
<Commentary id="c779617" Type="F">
<Para>
<Text>
<CitationSubRef id="c01532" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1974/7/section/25/1/aa" SectionRef="section-25-1-aa">S. 25(1)(aa)</CitationSubRef>
inserted by
<Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1975/77" id="c01533" Year="1975" Class="UnitedKingdomPublicGeneralAct" Number="77" Title="Community Land Act 1975">Community Land Act 1975 (c. 77)</Citation>
,
<CitationSubRef id="c01534" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1975/77/schedule/10/paragraph/9/1" Operative="true" CitationRef="c01533" SectionRef="schedule-10-paragraph-9-1">Sch. 10 para. 9(1)</CitationSubRef>
(continued as amended by
<Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1980/65" id="c01535" Year="1980" Class="UnitedKingdomPublicGeneralAct" Number="65" Title="Local Government, Planning and Land Act 1980">Local Government, Planning and Land Act 1980 (c. 65)</Citation>
,
<CitationSubRef id="c01536" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1980/65/schedule/22/paragraph/14/1/2" Operative="true" CitationRef="c01535" SectionRef="schedule-22-paragraph-14-1-2">Sch. 22 para. 14(1)(2)</CitationSubRef>
)
</Text>
</Para>
</Commentary>
<Commentary id="c779618" Type="F">
<Para>
<Text>
Words repealed by
<Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1980/65" id="c01537" Year="1980" Class="UnitedKingdomPublicGeneralAct" Number="65" Title="Local Government, Planning and Land Act 1980">Local Government, Planning and Land Act 1980 (c. 65)</Citation>
,
<CitationSubRef id="c01538" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1980/65/schedule/34/part/XI" Operative="true" CitationRef="c01537" SectionRef="schedule-34-part-XI">Sch. 34 Pt. XI</CitationSubRef>
</Text>
</Para>
</Commentary>
<Commentary id="c779619" Type="F">
<Para>
<Text>
<CitationSubRef id="c01539" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1974/7/section/25/1/ba" UpTo="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1974/7/section/25/1/bd" Type="group" StartSectionRef="section-25-1-ba" EndSectionRef="section-25-1-bd">S. 25(1)(ba)–(bd)</CitationSubRef>
inserted by
<Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1988/9" id="c01540" Year="1988" Class="UnitedKingdomPublicGeneralAct" Number="9" Title="Local Government Act 1988">Local Government Act 1988 (c. 9, SIF 81:1, 2)</Citation>
,
<CitationSubRef id="c01541" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1988/9/section/29" CitationRef="c01540" SectionRef="section-29">s. 29</CitationSubRef>
,
<CitationSubRef id="c01542" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1988/9/schedule/3/paragraph/4" Operative="true" CitationRef="c01540" SectionRef="schedule-3-paragraph-4">Sch. 3 para. 4</CitationSubRef>
</Text>
</Para>
</Commentary>
<Commentary id="c779620" Type="F">
<Para>
<Text>
<CitationSubRef id="c01543" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1974/7/section/25/1/be" SectionRef="section-25-1-be">S. 25(1)(be)</CitationSubRef>
inserted by
<Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1988/50" id="c01544" Year="1988" Class="UnitedKingdomPublicGeneralAct" Number="50" Title="Housing Act 1988">Housing Act 1988 (c. 50, SIF 61)</Citation>
,
<CitationSubRef id="c01545" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1988/50/section/140/1" CitationRef="c01544" SectionRef="section-140-1">s. 140(1)</CitationSubRef>
,
<CitationSubRef id="c01546" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1988/50/schedule/17/paragraph/19" Operative="true" CitationRef="c01544" SectionRef="schedule-17-paragraph-19">Sch. 17 para. 19</CitationSubRef>
</Text>
</Para>
</Commentary>
<Commentary id="c779621" Type="F">
<Para>
<Text>
<CitationSubRef id="c01547" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1974/7/section/25/1" SectionRef="section-25-1">S. 25(1)</CitationSubRef>
(
<Emphasis>c</Emphasis>
)(
<Emphasis>ca</Emphasis>
)(
<Emphasis>cb</Emphasis>
) substituted for s. 25(1)(
<Emphasis>c</Emphasis>
) by
<Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1985/51" id="c01548" Year="1985" Class="UnitedKingdomPublicGeneralAct" Number="51" Title="Local Government Act 1985">Local Government Act 1985 (c. 51, SIF 81:1)</Citation>
,
<CitationSubRef id="c01549" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1985/51/section/84" CitationRef="c01548" SectionRef="section-84">s. 84</CitationSubRef>
,
<CitationSubRef id="c01550" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1985/51/schedule/14/part/II/paragraph/51" Operative="true" CitationRef="c01548" SectionRef="schedule-14-part-II-paragraph-51">Sch. 14 Pt. II para. 51</CitationSubRef>
(
<Emphasis>a</Emphasis>
)
</Text>
</Para>
</Commentary>
<Commentary id="c779622" Type="C">
<Para>
<Text>
<CitationSubRef id="c01551" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1974/7/section/25/1/c" SectionRef="section-25-1-c">S. 25(1)(c)</CitationSubRef>
amended by
<Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/uksi/1985/1884" id="c01552" Class="UnitedKingdomStatutoryInstrument" Year="1985" Number="1884">S.I. 1985/1884</Citation>
,
<CitationSubRef id="c01553" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/uksi/1985/1884/article/10" CitationRef="c01552" SectionRef="article-10">art. 10</CitationSubRef>
,
<CitationSubRef id="c01554" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/uksi/1985/1884/schedule/3/paragraph/4" Operative="true" CitationRef="c01552" SectionRef="schedule-3-paragraph-4">Sch. 3 para. 4</CitationSubRef>
(
<Emphasis>k</Emphasis>
) and by
<Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/uksi/1989/1815" id="c01555" Class="UnitedKingdomStatutoryInstrument" Year="1989" Number="1815">S.I. 1989/1815</Citation>
,
<CitationSubRef id="c01556" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/uksi/1989/1815/article/2" CitationRef="c01555" SectionRef="article-2">art. 2</CitationSubRef>
,
<CitationSubRef id="c01557" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/uksi/1989/1815/schedule/1/paragraph/6/b" Operative="true" CitationRef="c01555" SectionRef="schedule-1-paragraph-6-b">Sch. 1 para. 6(b)</CitationSubRef>
</Text>
</Para>
</Commentary>
<Commentary id="c779623" Type="C">
<Para>
<Text>
<CitationSubRef id="c01558" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1974/7/section/25/1" SectionRef="section-25-1">S. 25(1)</CitationSubRef>
(
<Emphasis>c</Emphasis>
) extended by
<Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/uksi/1987/2110" id="c01559" Class="UnitedKingdomStatutoryInstrument" Year="1987" Number="2110">S.I. 1987/2110</Citation>
,
<CitationSubRef id="c01560" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/uksi/1987/2110/article/2/2" CitationRef="c01559" SectionRef="article-2-2">art. 2(2)</CitationSubRef>
,
<CitationSubRef id="c01561" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/uksi/1987/2110/schedule/2/paragraph/8/h" Operative="true" CitationRef="c01559" SectionRef="schedule-2-paragraph-8-h">Sch. 2 para. 8(h)</CitationSubRef>
</Text>
</Para>
</Commentary>
<Commentary id="c779624" Type="F">
<Para>
<Text>
<CitationSubRef id="c01562" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1974/7/section/25/1/cb" SectionRef="section-25-1-cb">S. 25(1)(cb)</CitationSubRef>
repealed by
<Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1988/40" id="c01563" Year="1988" Class="UnitedKingdomPublicGeneralAct" Number="40" Title="Education Reform Act 1988">Education Reform Act 1988 (c. 40, SIF 41:1)</Citation>
,
<CitationSubRef id="c01564" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1988/40/section/231/7" CitationRef="c01563" SectionRef="section-231-7">ss. 231(7)</CitationSubRef>
,
<CitationSubRef id="c01565" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1988/40/section/235/6" CitationRef="c01563" SectionRef="section-235-6">235(6)</CitationSubRef>
,
<CitationSubRef id="c01566" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1988/40/section/237/2" CitationRef="c01563" SectionRef="section-237-2">237(2)</CitationSubRef>
,
<CitationSubRef id="c01567" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1988/40/schedule/13/part/I" Operative="true" CitationRef="c01563" SectionRef="schedule-13-part-I">Sch. 13 Pt. I</CitationSubRef>
</Text>
</Para>
</Commentary>
<Commentary id="c779625" Type="F">
<Para>
<Text>
<CitationSubRef id="c01568" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1974/7/section/25/1" SectionRef="section-25-1">S. 25(1)</CitationSubRef>
(
<Emphasis>d</Emphasis>
) substituted by
<Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1989/15" id="c01569" Year="1989" Class="UnitedKingdomPublicGeneralAct" Number="15" Title="Water Act 1989">Water Act 1989 (c. 15, SIF 130)</Citation>
,
<CitationSubRef id="c01570" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1989/15/section/1/6" CitationRef="c01569" SectionRef="section-1-6">ss. 1(6)</CitationSubRef>
,
<CitationSubRef id="c01571" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1989/15/section/58/7" CitationRef="c01569" SectionRef="section-58-7">58(7)</CitationSubRef>
,
<CitationSubRef id="c01572" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1989/15/section/101/1" CitationRef="c01569" SectionRef="section-101-1">101(1)</CitationSubRef>
,
<CitationSubRef id="c01573" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1989/15/section/141/6" CitationRef="c01569" SectionRef="section-141-6">141(6)</CitationSubRef>
,
<CitationSubRef id="c01574" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1989/15/section/160/1/2/4" CitationRef="c01569" SectionRef="section-160-1-2-4">160(1)(2)(4)</CitationSubRef>
,
<CitationSubRef id="c01575" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1989/15/section/163" CitationRef="c01569" SectionRef="section-163">163</CitationSubRef>
,
<CitationSubRef id="c01576" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1989/15/section/189/4" UpTo="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1989/15/section/189/10" CitationRef="c01569" Type="group" StartSectionRef="section-189-4" EndSectionRef="section-189-10">189(4)–(10)</CitationSubRef>
,
<CitationSubRef id="c01577" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1989/15/section/190" CitationRef="c01569" SectionRef="section-190">190</CitationSubRef>
,
<CitationSubRef id="c01578" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1989/15/section/193/1" CitationRef="c01569" SectionRef="section-193-1">193(1)</CitationSubRef>
,
<CitationSubRef id="c01579" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1989/15/schedule/1/paragraph/12" CitationRef="c01569" SectionRef="schedule-1-paragraph-12">Sch. 1 para. 12</CitationSubRef>
,
<CitationSubRef id="c01580" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1989/15/schedule/26/paragraph/3/1/2" CitationRef="c01569" SectionRef="schedule-26-paragraph-3-1-2">Sch. 26 paras. 3(1)(2)</CitationSubRef>
,
<CitationSubRef id="c01581" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1989/15/schedule/26/paragraph/17" CitationRef="c01569" SectionRef="schedule-26-paragraph-17">17</CitationSubRef>
,
<CitationSubRef id="c01582" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1989/15/schedule/26/paragraph/40/4" CitationRef="c01569" SectionRef="schedule-26-paragraph-40-4">40(4)</CitationSubRef>
,
<CitationSubRef id="c01583" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1989/15/schedule/26/paragraph/57/6" CitationRef="c01569" SectionRef="schedule-26-paragraph-57-6">57(6)</CitationSubRef>
,
<CitationSubRef id="c01584" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1989/15/schedule/26/paragraph/58" Operative="true" CitationRef="c01569" SectionRef="schedule-26-paragraph-58">58</CitationSubRef>
</Text>
</Para>
</Commentary>
<Commentary id="c779626" Type="F">
<Para>
<Text>
Words repealed by
<Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1989/42" id="c01585" Year="1989" Class="UnitedKingdomPublicGeneralAct" Number="42" Title="Local Government and Housing Act 1989">Local Government and Housing Act 1989 (c. 42, SIF 81:1)</Citation>
,
<CitationSubRef id="c01586" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1989/42/section/194/4" CitationRef="c01585" SectionRef="section-194-4">s. 194(4)</CitationSubRef>
,
<CitationSubRef id="c01587" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1989/42/schedule/12/part/II" Operative="true" CitationRef="c01585" SectionRef="schedule-12-part-II">Sch. 12 Pt. II</CitationSubRef>
</Text>
</Para>
</Commentary>
<Commentary id="c779627" Type="F">
<Para>
<Text>
<CitationSubRef id="c01588" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1974/7/section/25/5" SectionRef="section-25-5">S. 25(5)</CitationSubRef>
inserted with saving by
<Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1980/20" id="c01589" Year="1980" Class="UnitedKingdomPublicGeneralAct" Number="20" Title="Education Act 1980">Education Act 1980 (c. 20)</Citation>
,
<CitationSubRef id="c01590" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1980/20/section/7/7" Operative="true" CitationRef="c01589" SectionRef="section-7-7">s. 7(7)</CitationSubRef>
and
<Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/uksi/1980/959" id="c01591" Class="UnitedKingdomStatutoryInstrument" Year="1980" Number="959">S.I. 1980/959</Citation>
,
<CitationSubRef id="c01592" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/uksi/1980/959/schedule/3/paragraph/1" Operative="true" CitationRef="c01591" SectionRef="schedule-3-paragraph-1">Sch. 3 para. 1</CitationSubRef>
</Text>
</Para>
</Commentary>
<Commentary id="c779628" Type="M">
<Para>
<Text>
<Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1980/20" id="c01593" Year="1980" Class="UnitedKingdomPublicGeneralAct" Number="20">1980 c. 20</Citation>
.
</Text>
</Para>
</Commentary>
<Commentary id="c779982" Type="C">
<Para>
<Text>
<CitationSubRef id="c03459" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1974/7/section/26" SectionRef="section-26">S. 26</CitationSubRef>
modified by
<Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/uksi/1986/452" id="c03460" Class="UnitedKingdomStatutoryInstrument" Year="1986" Number="452">S.I. 1986/452</Citation>
,
<CitationSubRef id="c03461" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/uksi/1986/452/article/8/3/5" Operative="true" CitationRef="c03460" SectionRef="article-8-3-5">art. 8(3)(5)</CitationSubRef>
</Text>
</Para>
</Commentary>
<Commentary id="c779983" Type="F">
<Para>
<Text>
Words inserted by
<Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1988/9" id="c03462" Year="1988" Class="UnitedKingdomPublicGeneralAct" Number="9" Title="Local Government Act 1988">Local Government Act 1988 (c. 9, SIF 81:1, 2)</Citation>
,
<CitationSubRef id="c03463" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1988/9/section/29" CitationRef="c03462" SectionRef="section-29">s. 29</CitationSubRef>
,
<CitationSubRef id="c03464" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1988/9/schedule/3/paragraph/5/2" Operative="true" CitationRef="c03462" SectionRef="schedule-3-paragraph-5-2">Sch. 3 para. 5(2)</CitationSubRef>
</Text>
</Para>
</Commentary>
<Commentary id="c779984" Type="F">
<Para>
<Text>
Words inserted by
<Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1988/9" id="c03465" Year="1988" Class="UnitedKingdomPublicGeneralAct" Number="9" Title="Local Government Act 1988">Local Government Act 1988 (c. 9, SIF 81:1, 2)</Citation>
,
<CitationSubRef id="c03466" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1988/9/section/29" CitationRef="c03465" SectionRef="section-29">s. 29</CitationSubRef>
,
<CitationSubRef id="c03467" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1988/9/schedule/3/paragraph/5/3/7" Operative="true" CitationRef="c03465" SectionRef="schedule-3-paragraph-5-3-7">Sch. 3 para. 5(3)(7)</CitationSubRef>
</Text>
</Para>
</Commentary>
<Commentary id="c779985" Type="F">
<Para>
<Text>
Words substituted by
<Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1988/9" id="c03468" Year="1988" Class="UnitedKingdomPublicGeneralAct" Number="9" Title="Local Government Act 1988">Local Government Act 1988 (c. 9, SIF 81:1, 2)</Citation>
,
<CitationSubRef id="c03469" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1988/9/section/29" CitationRef="c03468" SectionRef="section-29">s. 29</CitationSubRef>
,
<CitationSubRef id="c03470" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1988/9/schedule/3/paragraph/5/3/7" Operative="true" CitationRef="c03468" SectionRef="schedule-3-paragraph-5-3-7">Sch. 3 para. 5(3)(7)</CitationSubRef>
</Text>
</Para>
</Commentary>
<Commentary id="c779986" Type="F">
<Para>
<Text>
<CitationSubRef id="c03471" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1974/7/section/26/7/a" UpTo="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1974/7/section/26/7/c" Type="group" StartSectionRef="section-26-7-a" EndSectionRef="section-26-7-c">S. 26(7)(a)–(c)</CitationSubRef>
and words substituted by
<Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1988/9" id="c03472" Year="1988" Class="UnitedKingdomPublicGeneralAct" Number="9" Title="Local Government Act 1988">Local Government Act 1988 (c. 9, SIF 81:1, 2)</Citation>
,
<CitationSubRef id="c03473" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1988/9/section/29" CitationRef="c03472" SectionRef="section-29">s. 29</CitationSubRef>
,
<CitationSubRef id="c03474" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1988/9/schedule/3/paragraph/5/4" Operative="true" CitationRef="c03472" SectionRef="schedule-3-paragraph-5-4">Sch. 3 para. 5(4)</CitationSubRef>
</Text>
</Para>
</Commentary>
<Commentary id="c779987" Type="F">
<Para>
<Text>
Words substituted by
<Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1988/9" id="c03475" Year="1988" Class="UnitedKingdomPublicGeneralAct" Number="9" Title="Local Government Act 1988">Local Government Act 1988 (c. 9, SIF 81:1, 2)</Citation>
,
<CitationSubRef id="c03476" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1988/9/section/29" CitationRef="c03475" SectionRef="section-29">s. 29</CitationSubRef>
,
<CitationSubRef id="c03477" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1988/9/schedule/3/paragraph/5/5" Operative="true" CitationRef="c03475" SectionRef="schedule-3-paragraph-5-5">Sch. 3 para. 5(5)</CitationSubRef>
</Text>
</Para>
</Commentary>
<Commentary id="c779988" Type="F">
<Para>
<Text>
<CitationSubRef id="c03478" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1974/7/section/26/11" SectionRef="section-26-11">S. 26(11)</CitationSubRef>
substituted by
<Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1985/51" id="c03479" Year="1985" Class="UnitedKingdomPublicGeneralAct" Number="51" Title="Local Government Act 1985">Local Government Act 1985 (c. 51, SIF 81:1)</Citation>
,
<CitationSubRef id="c03480" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1985/51/section/84" CitationRef="c03479" SectionRef="section-84">s. 84</CitationSubRef>
,
<CitationSubRef id="c03481" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1985/51/schedule/14/part/II/paragraph/51" Operative="true" CitationRef="c03479" SectionRef="schedule-14-part-II-paragraph-51">Sch. 14 Pt. II para. 51</CitationSubRef>
(
<Emphasis>b</Emphasis>
)
</Text>
</Para>
</Commentary>
<Commentary id="c779989" Type="C">
<Para>
<Text>
<CitationSubRef id="c03482" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1974/7/section/26/11" SectionRef="section-26-11">S. 26(11)</CitationSubRef>
(
<Emphasis>b</Emphasis>
) amended by
<Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/uksi/1985/1884" id="c03483" Class="UnitedKingdomStatutoryInstrument" Year="1985" Number="1884">S.I. 1985/1884</Citation>
,
<CitationSubRef id="c03484" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/uksi/1985/1884/article/10" CitationRef="c03483" SectionRef="article-10">art. 10</CitationSubRef>
,
<CitationSubRef id="c03485" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/uksi/1985/1884/schedule/3/paragraph/4" Operative="true" CitationRef="c03483" SectionRef="schedule-3-paragraph-4">Sch. 3 para. 4</CitationSubRef>
(
<Emphasis>k</Emphasis>
)
</Text>
</Para>
</Commentary>
<Commentary id="c779990" Type="C">
<Para>
<Text>
<CitationSubRef id="c03486" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1974/7/section/26/11" SectionRef="section-26-11">S. 26(11)</CitationSubRef>
(
<Emphasis>b</Emphasis>
) extended by
<Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/uksi/1987/2110" id="c03487" Class="UnitedKingdomStatutoryInstrument" Year="1987" Number="2110">S.I. 1987/2110</Citation>
,
<CitationSubRef id="c03488" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/uksi/1987/2110/article/2/2" CitationRef="c03487" SectionRef="article-2-2">art. 2(2)</CitationSubRef>
,
<CitationSubRef id="c03489" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/uksi/1987/2110/schedule/1/paragraph/8/k" Operative="true" CitationRef="c03487" SectionRef="schedule-1-paragraph-8-k">Sch. 1 para. 8(k)</CitationSubRef>
</Text>
</Para>
</Commentary>
<Commentary id="c779991" Type="F">
<Para>
<Text>
<CitationSubRef id="c03490" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1974/7/section/26/13" SectionRef="section-26-13">S. 26(13)</CitationSubRef>
inserted by
<Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1988/9" id="c03491" Year="1988" Class="UnitedKingdomPublicGeneralAct" Number="9" Title="Local Government Act 1988">Local Government Act 1988 (c. 9, SIF 81:1, 2)</Citation>
,
<CitationSubRef id="c03492" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1988/9/section/29" CitationRef="c03491" SectionRef="section-29">s. 29</CitationSubRef>
,
<CitationSubRef id="c03493" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1988/9/schedule/3/paragraph/5/6" Operative="true" CitationRef="c03491" SectionRef="schedule-3-paragraph-5-6">Sch. 3 para. 5(6)</CitationSubRef>
</Text>
</Para>
</Commentary>
<Commentary id="c780059" Type="C">
<Para>
<Text>
<CitationSubRef id="c03704" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1974/7/section/27" UpTo="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1974/7/section/30" Type="group" StartSectionRef="section-27" EndSectionRef="section-30">Ss. 27–30</CitationSubRef>
modified by
<Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/uksi/1986/452" id="c03705" Class="UnitedKingdomStatutoryInstrument" Year="1986" Number="452">S.I. 1986/452</Citation>
,
<CitationSubRef id="c03706" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/uksi/1986/452/article/8/3" Operative="true" CitationRef="c03705" SectionRef="article-8-3">art. 8(3)</CitationSubRef>
</Text>
</Para>
</Commentary>
<Commentary id="c780067" Type="C">
<Para>
<Text>
<CitationSubRef id="c03713" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1974/7/section/27" UpTo="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1974/7/section/30" Type="group" StartSectionRef="section-27" EndSectionRef="section-30">Ss. 27–30</CitationSubRef>
modified by
<Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/uksi/1986/452" id="c03714" Class="UnitedKingdomStatutoryInstrument" Year="1986" Number="452">S.I. 1986/452</Citation>
,
<CitationSubRef id="c03715" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/uksi/1986/452/article/8/3" Operative="true" CitationRef="c03714" SectionRef="article-8-3">art. 8(3)</CitationSubRef>
</Text>
</Para>
</Commentary>
<Commentary id="c780068" Type="F">
<Para>
<Text>
Words substituted by virtue of
<Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/uksi/1981/1670" id="c03716" Class="UnitedKingdomStatutoryInstrument" Year="1981" Number="1670">S.I. 1981/1670</Citation>
,
<CitationSubRef id="c03717" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/uksi/1981/1670/article/2/3" Operative="true" CitationRef="c03716" SectionRef="article-2-3">arts. 2(3)</CitationSubRef>
,
<CitationSubRef id="c03718" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/uksi/1981/1670/article/3/5" CitationRef="c03716" SectionRef="article-3-5">3(5)</CitationSubRef>
</Text>
</Para>
</Commentary>
<Commentary id="c780073" Type="C">
<Para>
<Text>
<CitationSubRef id="c03719" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1974/7/section/27" UpTo="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1974/7/section/30" Type="group" StartSectionRef="section-27" EndSectionRef="section-30">Ss. 27–30</CitationSubRef>
modified by
<Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/uksi/1986/452" id="c03720" Class="UnitedKingdomStatutoryInstrument" Year="1986" Number="452">S.I. 1986/452</Citation>
,
<CitationSubRef id="c03721" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/uksi/1986/452/article/8/3" Operative="true" CitationRef="c03720" SectionRef="article-8-3">art. 8(3)</CitationSubRef>
</Text>
</Para>
</Commentary>
<Commentary id="c780074" Type="M">
<Para>
<Text>
<Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1967/13" id="c03722" Year="1967" Class="UnitedKingdomPublicGeneralAct" Number="13">1967 c. 13</Citation>
.
</Text>
</Para>
</Commentary>
<Commentary id="c780075" Type="F">
<Para>
<Text>
Words substituted by
<Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1977/49" id="c03723" Year="1977" Class="UnitedKingdomPublicGeneralAct" Number="49" Title="National Health Service Act 1977">National Health Service Act 1977 (c. 49)</Citation>
,
<CitationSubRef id="c03724" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1977/49/schedule/15/paragraph/60" Operative="true" CitationRef="c03723" SectionRef="schedule-15-paragraph-60">Sch. 15 para. 60</CitationSubRef>
</Text>
</Para>
</Commentary>
<Commentary id="c780076" Type="M">
<Para>
<Text>
<Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1977/49" id="c03725" Year="1977" Class="UnitedKingdomPublicGeneralAct" Number="49">1977 c. 49</Citation>
.
</Text>
</Para>
</Commentary>
<Commentary id="c780077" Type="F">
<Para>
<Text>
Words substituted by virtue of
<Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/uksi/1981/1670" id="c03726" Class="UnitedKingdomStatutoryInstrument" Year="1981" Number="1670">S.I. 1981/1670</Citation>
,
<CitationSubRef id="c03727" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/uksi/1981/1670/article/2/3" Operative="true" CitationRef="c03726" SectionRef="article-2-3">arts. 2(3)</CitationSubRef>
,
<CitationSubRef id="c03728" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/uksi/1981/1670/article/3/5" CitationRef="c03726" SectionRef="article-3-5">3(5)</CitationSubRef>
</Text>
</Para>
</Commentary>
<Commentary id="c780098" Type="C">
<Para>
<Text>
<CitationSubRef id="c03762" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1974/7/section/27" UpTo="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1974/7/section/30" Type="group" StartSectionRef="section-27" EndSectionRef="section-30">Ss. 27–30</CitationSubRef>
modified by
<Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/uksi/1986/452" id="c03763" Class="UnitedKingdomStatutoryInstrument" Year="1986" Number="452">S.I. 1986/452</Citation>
,
<CitationSubRef id="c03764" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/uksi/1986/452/article/8/3" Operative="true" CitationRef="c03763" SectionRef="article-8-3">art. 8(3)</CitationSubRef>
</Text>
</Para>
</Commentary>
<Commentary id="c780099" Type="F">
<Para>
<Text>
<CitationSubRef id="c03765" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1974/7/section/30/2A" SectionRef="section-30-2A">S. 30(2A)</CitationSubRef>
inserted by
<Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1975/77" id="c03766" Year="1975" Class="UnitedKingdomPublicGeneralAct" Number="77" Title="Community Land Act 1975">Community Land Act 1975 (c. 77)</Citation>
,
<CitationSubRef id="c03767" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1975/77/schedule/10/paragraph/9/2" Operative="true" CitationRef="c03766" SectionRef="schedule-10-paragraph-9-2">Sch. 10 para. 9(2)</CitationSubRef>
(continued by
<Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1980/65" id="c03768" Year="1980" Class="UnitedKingdomPublicGeneralAct" Number="65" Title="Local Government, Planning and Land Act 1980">Local Government, Planning and Land Act 1980 (c. 65)</Citation>
,
<CitationSubRef id="c03769" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1980/65/schedule/22/paragraph/14/3" Operative="true" CitationRef="c03768" SectionRef="schedule-22-paragraph-14-3">Sch. 22 para. 14(3)</CitationSubRef>
)
</Text>
</Para>
</Commentary>
<Commentary id="c780100" Type="F">
<Para>
<Text>
Words inserted by
<Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1989/42" id="c03770" Year="1989" Class="UnitedKingdomPublicGeneralAct" Number="42" Title="Local Government and Housing Act 1989">Local Government and Housing Act 1989 (c. 42, SIF 81:1, 2)</Citation>
,
<CitationSubRef id="c03771" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1989/42/section/32/1/a" Operative="true" CitationRef="c03770" SectionRef="section-32-1-a">s. 32(1)(a)</CitationSubRef>
</Text>
</Para>
</Commentary>
<Commentary id="c780101" Type="F">
<Para>
<Text>
<CitationSubRef id="c03772" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1974/7/section/30/3A" SectionRef="section-30-3A">S. 30(3A)</CitationSubRef>
inserted by
<Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1989/42" id="c03773" Year="1989" Class="UnitedKingdomPublicGeneralAct" Number="42" Title="Local Government and Housing Act 1989">Local Government and Housing Act 1989 (c. 42, SIF 81:1, 2)</Citation>
,
<CitationSubRef id="c03774" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1989/42/section/32/1/b" Operative="true" CitationRef="c03773" SectionRef="section-32-1-b">s. 32(1)(b)</CitationSubRef>
</Text>
</Para>
</Commentary>
<Commentary id="c780102" Type="F">
<Para>
<Text>
<CitationSubRef id="c03775" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1974/7/section/30/4A" SectionRef="section-30-4A">S. 30(4A)</CitationSubRef>
inserted by
<Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1988/9" id="c03776" Year="1988" Class="UnitedKingdomPublicGeneralAct" Number="9" Title="Local Government Act 1988">Local Government Act 1988 (c. 9, SIF 81:1, 2)</Citation>
,
<CitationSubRef id="c03777" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1988/9/section/29" CitationRef="c03776" SectionRef="section-29">s. 29</CitationSubRef>
,
<CitationSubRef id="c03778" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1988/9/schedule/3/paragraph/6/2/5" Operative="true" CitationRef="c03776" SectionRef="schedule-3-paragraph-6-2-5">Sch. 3 para. 6(2)(5)</CitationSubRef>
</Text>
</Para>
</Commentary>
<Commentary id="c780103" Type="F">
<Para>
<Text>
Words substituted by
<Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1988/9" id="c03779" Year="1988" Class="UnitedKingdomPublicGeneralAct" Number="9" Title="Local Government Act 1988">Local Government Act 1988 (c. 9, SIF 81:1, 2)</Citation>
,
<CitationSubRef id="c03780" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1988/9/section/29" CitationRef="c03779" SectionRef="section-29">s. 29</CitationSubRef>
,
<CitationSubRef id="c03781" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1988/9/schedule/3/paragraph/6/3/a/5" Operative="true" CitationRef="c03779" SectionRef="schedule-3-paragraph-6-3-a-5">Sch. 3 para. 6(3)(a)(5)</CitationSubRef>
</Text>
</Para>
</Commentary>
<Commentary id="c780104" Type="F">
<Para>
<Text>
Words substituted by
<Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1988/9" id="c03782" Year="1988" Class="UnitedKingdomPublicGeneralAct" Number="9" Title="Local Government Act 1988">Local Government Act 1988 (c. 9, SIF 81:1, 2)</Citation>
,
<CitationSubRef id="c03783" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1988/9/section/29" CitationRef="c03782" SectionRef="section-29">s. 29</CitationSubRef>
,
<CitationSubRef id="c03784" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1988/9/schedule/3/paragraph/6/3/b/5" Operative="true" CitationRef="c03782" SectionRef="schedule-3-paragraph-6-3-b-5">Sch. 3 para. 6(3)(b)(5)</CitationSubRef>
</Text>
</Para>
</Commentary>
<Commentary id="c780105" Type="F">
<Para>
<Text>
Words substituted by
<Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1988/9" id="c03785" Year="1988" Class="UnitedKingdomPublicGeneralAct" Number="9" Title="Local Government Act 1988">Local Government Act 1988 (c. 9, SIF 81:1, 2)</Citation>
,
<CitationSubRef id="c03786" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1988/9/section/29" CitationRef="c03785" SectionRef="section-29">s. 29</CitationSubRef>
,
<CitationSubRef id="c03787" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1988/9/schedule/3/paragraph/6/3/c/5" Operative="true" CitationRef="c03785" SectionRef="schedule-3-paragraph-6-3-c-5">Sch. 3 para. 6(3)(c)(5)</CitationSubRef>
</Text>
</Para>
</Commentary>
<Commentary id="c780106" Type="F">
<Para>
<Text>
Words substituted by virtue of
<Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1982/48" id="c03788" Year="1982" Class="UnitedKingdomPublicGeneralAct" Number="48" Title="Criminal Justice Act 1982">Criminal Justice Act 1982 (c. 48, SIF 39:1)</Citation>
,
<CitationSubRef id="c03789" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1982/48/section/38" Operative="true" CitationRef="c03788" SectionRef="section-38">ss. 38</CitationSubRef>
,
<CitationSubRef id="c03790" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1982/48/section/46" CitationRef="c03788" SectionRef="section-46">46</CitationSubRef>
</Text>
</Para>
</Commentary>
<Commentary id="c780107" Type="F">
<Para>
<Text>
Words substituted by
<Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1988/9" id="c03791" Year="1988" Class="UnitedKingdomPublicGeneralAct" Number="9" Title="Local Government Act 1988">Local Government Act 1988 (c. 9, SIF 81:1, 2)</Citation>
,
<CitationSubRef id="c03792" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1988/9/section/29" CitationRef="c03791" SectionRef="section-29">s. 29</CitationSubRef>
,
<CitationSubRef id="c03793" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1988/9/schedule/3/paragraph/6/4/5" Operative="true" CitationRef="c03791" SectionRef="schedule-3-paragraph-6-4-5">Sch. 3 para. 6(4)(5)</CitationSubRef>
</Text>
</Para>
</Commentary>
<Commentary id="c780192" Type="C">
<Para>
<Text>
<CitationSubRef id="c04012" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1974/7/section/31" UpTo="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1974/7/section/34" Type="group" StartSectionRef="section-31" EndSectionRef="section-34">Ss. 31–34</CitationSubRef>
modified by
<Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/uksi/1986/452" id="c04013" Class="UnitedKingdomStatutoryInstrument" Year="1986" Number="452">S.I. 1986/452</Citation>
,
<CitationSubRef id="c04014" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/uksi/1986/452/article/8/3" Operative="true" CitationRef="c04013" SectionRef="article-8-3">art. 8(3)</CitationSubRef>
</Text>
</Para>
</Commentary>
<Commentary id="c780193" Type="F">
<Para>
<Text>
<CitationSubRef id="c04015" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1974/7/section/31" SectionRef="section-31">S. 31</CitationSubRef>
subsections (1)–(2H) substituted for subsections (1)(2) by virtue of
<Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1989/42" id="c04016" Year="1989" Class="UnitedKingdomPublicGeneralAct" Number="42" Title="Local Government and Housing Act 1989">Local Government and Housing Act 1989 (c. 42, SIF 81:1, 2)</Citation>
,
<CitationSubRef id="c04017" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1989/42/section/26/1/2" Operative="true" CitationRef="c04016" SectionRef="section-26-1-2">s. 26(1)(2)</CitationSubRef>
</Text>
</Para>
</Commentary>
<Commentary id="c780194" Type="F">
<Para>
<Text>
<CitationSubRef id="c04018" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1974/7/section/31/3" SectionRef="section-31-3">S. 31(3)</CitationSubRef>
added by
<Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1978/39" id="c04019" Year="1978" Class="UnitedKingdomPublicGeneralAct" Number="39" Title="Local Government Act 1978">Local Government Act 1978 (c. 39)</Citation>
,
<CitationSubRef id="c04020" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1978/39/section/1" Operative="true" CitationRef="c04019" SectionRef="section-1">s. 1</CitationSubRef>
</Text>
</Para>
</Commentary>
<Commentary id="c780195" Type="F">
<Para>
<Text>
Words substituted by virtue of
<Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1989/42" id="c04021" Year="1989" Class="UnitedKingdomPublicGeneralAct" Number="42" Title="Local Government and Housing Act 1989">Local Government and Housing Act 1989 (c. 42, SIF 81:1, 2)</Citation>
,
<CitationSubRef id="c04022" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1989/42/section/194/1" CitationRef="c04021" SectionRef="section-194-1">s. 194(1)</CitationSubRef>
,
<CitationSubRef id="c04023" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1989/42/schedule/11/paragraph/39/1/2" Operative="true" CitationRef="c04021" SectionRef="schedule-11-paragraph-39-1-2">Sch. 11 para. 39(1)(2)</CitationSubRef>
</Text>
</Para>
</Commentary>
<Commentary id="c780196" Type="F">
<Para>
<Text>
Words substituted by
<Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1988/9" id="c04024" Year="1988" Class="UnitedKingdomPublicGeneralAct" Number="9" Title="Local Government Act 1988">Local Government Act 1988 (c. 9, SIF 81:1, 2)</Citation>
,
<CitationSubRef id="c04025" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1988/9/section/29" CitationRef="c04024" SectionRef="section-29">s. 29</CitationSubRef>
,
<CitationSubRef id="c04026" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1988/9/schedule/3/paragraph/7/1/4/5" Operative="true" CitationRef="c04024" SectionRef="schedule-3-paragraph-7-1-4-5">Sch. 3 para. 7(1)(4)(5)</CitationSubRef>
</Text>
</Para>
</Commentary>
<Commentary id="c780210" Type="F">
<Para>
<Text>
<CitationSubRef id="c04045" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1974/7/section/31A" SectionRef="section-31A">S. 31A</CitationSubRef>
inserted by
<Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1989/42" id="c04046" Year="1989" Class="UnitedKingdomPublicGeneralAct" Number="42" Title="Local Government and Housing Act 1989">Local Government and Housing Act 1989 (c. 42, SIF 81:1, 2)</Citation>
,
<CitationSubRef id="c04047" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1989/42/section/28" Operative="true" CitationRef="c04046" SectionRef="section-28">s. 28</CitationSubRef>
</Text>
</Para>
</Commentary>
<Commentary id="c780211" Type="C">
<Para>
<Text>
<CitationSubRef id="c04048" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1974/7/section/31" UpTo="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1974/7/section/34" Type="group" StartSectionRef="section-31" EndSectionRef="section-34">Ss. 31–34</CitationSubRef>
modified by
<Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/uksi/1986/452" id="c04049" Class="UnitedKingdomStatutoryInstrument" Year="1986" Number="452">S.I. 1986/452</Citation>
,
<CitationSubRef id="c04050" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/uksi/1986/452/article/8/3" Operative="true" CitationRef="c04049" SectionRef="article-8-3">art. 8(3)</CitationSubRef>
</Text>
</Para>
</Commentary>
<Commentary id="c780233" Type="C">
<Para>
<Text>
<CitationSubRef id="c04102" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1974/7/section/31" UpTo="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1974/7/section/34" Type="group" StartSectionRef="section-31" EndSectionRef="section-34">Ss. 31–34</CitationSubRef>
modified by
<Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/uksi/1986/452" id="c04103" Class="UnitedKingdomStatutoryInstrument" Year="1986" Number="452">S.I. 1986/452</Citation>
,
<CitationSubRef id="c04104" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/uksi/1986/452/article/8/3" Operative="true" CitationRef="c04103" SectionRef="article-8-3">art. 8(3)</CitationSubRef>
</Text>
</Para>
</Commentary>
<Commentary id="c780234" Type="F">
<Para>
<Text>
Words inserted by
<Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1988/9" id="c04105" Year="1988" Class="UnitedKingdomPublicGeneralAct" Number="9" Title="Local Government Act 1988">Local Government Act 1988 (c. 9, SIF 81:1, 2)</Citation>
,
<CitationSubRef id="c04106" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1988/9/section/29" CitationRef="c04105" SectionRef="section-29">s. 29</CitationSubRef>
,
<CitationSubRef id="c04107" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1988/9/schedule/3/paragraph/8/2/4" Operative="true" CitationRef="c04105" SectionRef="schedule-3-paragraph-8-2-4">Sch. 3 para. 8(2)(4)</CitationSubRef>
</Text>
</Para>
</Commentary>
<Commentary id="c780235" Type="F">
<Para>
<Text>
Words inserted by
<Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1988/9" id="c04108" Year="1988" Class="UnitedKingdomPublicGeneralAct" Number="9" Title="Local Government Act 1988">Local Government Act 1988 (c. 9, SIF 81:1, 2)</Citation>
,
<CitationSubRef id="c04109" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1988/9/section/29" CitationRef="c04108" SectionRef="section-29">s. 29</CitationSubRef>
,
<CitationSubRef id="c04110" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1988/9/schedule/3/paragraph/8/3/4" Operative="true" CitationRef="c04108" SectionRef="schedule-3-paragraph-8-3-4">Sch. 3 para. 8(3)(4)</CitationSubRef>
</Text>
</Para>
</Commentary>
<Commentary id="c780236" Type="F">
<Para>
<Text>
<CitationSubRef id="c04111" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1974/7/section/32/1/e" SectionRef="section-32-1-e">S. 32(1)(e)</CitationSubRef>
inserted by
<Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1989/42" id="c04112" Year="1989" Class="UnitedKingdomPublicGeneralAct" Number="42" Title="Local Government and Housing Act 1989">Local Government and Housing Act 1989 (c. 42, SIF 81:1, 2)</Citation>
,
<CitationSubRef id="c04113" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1989/42/section/194/1" CitationRef="c04112" SectionRef="section-194-1">s. 194(1)</CitationSubRef>
,
<CitationSubRef id="c04114" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1989/42/schedule/11/paragraph/40" Operative="true" CitationRef="c04112" SectionRef="schedule-11-paragraph-40">Sch. 11 para. 40</CitationSubRef>
</Text>
</Para>
</Commentary>
<Commentary id="c780237" Type="C">
<Para>
<Text>
<CitationSubRef id="c04115" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1974/7/section/32/2/b" SectionRef="section-32-2-b">S. 32(2)(b)</CitationSubRef>
amended by
<Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1989/6" id="c04116" Year="1989" Class="UnitedKingdomPublicGeneralAct" Number="6" Title="Official Secrets Act 1989">Official Secrets Act 1989 (c. 6, SIF 39:2)</Citation>
,
<CitationSubRef id="c04117" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1989/6/section/16/3" CitationRef="c04116" SectionRef="section-16-3">s. 16(3)</CitationSubRef>
,
<CitationSubRef id="c04118" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1989/6/schedule/1/paragraph/1/e" Operative="true" CitationRef="c04116" SectionRef="schedule-1-paragraph-1-e">Sch. 1 para. 1(e)</CitationSubRef>
</Text>
</Para>
</Commentary>
<Commentary id="c780238" Type="F">
<Para>
<Text>
Words substituted by
<Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1980/65" id="c04119" Year="1980" Class="UnitedKingdomPublicGeneralAct" Number="65" Title="Local Government, Planning and Land Act 1980">Local Government, Planning and Land Act 1980 (c. 65)</Citation>
,
<CitationSubRef id="c04120" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1980/65/section/184/1" Operative="true" CitationRef="c04119" SectionRef="section-184-1">s. 184(1)</CitationSubRef>
</Text>
</Para>
</Commentary>
<Commentary id="c780273" Type="C">
<Para>
<Text>
<CitationSubRef id="c04205" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1974/7/section/31" UpTo="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1974/7/section/34" Type="group" StartSectionRef="section-31" EndSectionRef="section-34">Ss. 31–34</CitationSubRef>
modified by
<Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/uksi/1986/452" id="c04206" Class="UnitedKingdomStatutoryInstrument" Year="1986" Number="452">S.I. 1986/452</Citation>
,
<CitationSubRef id="c04207" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/uksi/1986/452/article/8/3" Operative="true" CitationRef="c04206" SectionRef="article-8-3">art. 8(3)</CitationSubRef>
</Text>
</Para>
</Commentary>
<Commentary id="c780274" Type="F">
<Para>
<Text>
Words substituted by
<Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1977/49" id="c04208" Year="1977" Class="UnitedKingdomPublicGeneralAct" Number="49" Title="National Health Service Act 1977">National Health Service Act 1977 (c. 49)</Citation>
,
<CitationSubRef id="c04209" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1977/49/schedule/15/paragraph/61/a" Operative="true" CitationRef="c04208" SectionRef="schedule-15-paragraph-61-a">Sch. 15 para. 61(a)</CitationSubRef>
</Text>
</Para>
</Commentary>
<Commentary id="c780275" Type="M">
<Para>
<Text>
<Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1977/49" id="c04210" Year="1977" Class="UnitedKingdomPublicGeneralAct" Number="49">1977 c. 49</Citation>
.
</Text>
</Para>
</Commentary>
<Commentary id="c780277" Type="F">
<Para>
<Text>
Words substituted by
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<CitationSubRef id="c04212" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1977/49/schedule/15/paragraph/61/b" Operative="true" CitationRef="c04211" SectionRef="schedule-15-paragraph-61-b">Sch. 15 para. 61(b)</CitationSubRef>
</Text>
</Para>
</Commentary>
<Commentary id="c780279" Type="F">
<Para>
<Text>
Words substituted by
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,
<CitationSubRef id="c04214" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1977/49/schedule/15/paragraph/61/c" Operative="true" CitationRef="c04213" SectionRef="schedule-15-paragraph-61-c">Sch. 15 para. 61(c)</CitationSubRef>
</Text>
</Para>
</Commentary>
<Commentary id="c780280" Type="F">
<Para>
<Text>
Words substituted by
<Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1977/49" id="c04215" Year="1977" Class="UnitedKingdomPublicGeneralAct" Number="49" Title="National Health Service Act 1977">National Health Service Act 1977 (c. 49)</Citation>
,
<CitationSubRef id="c04216" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1977/49/schedule/15/paragraph/61/d" Operative="true" CitationRef="c04215" SectionRef="schedule-15-paragraph-61-d">Sch. 15 para. 61(d)</CitationSubRef>
</Text>
</Para>
</Commentary>
<Commentary id="c780281" Type="M">
<Para>
<Text>
<Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1967/13" id="c04217" Year="1967" Class="UnitedKingdomPublicGeneralAct" Number="13">1967 c. 13</Citation>
.
</Text>
</Para>
</Commentary>
<Commentary id="c780282" Type="F">
<Para>
<Text>
Words substituted by
<Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1977/49" id="c04218" Year="1977" Class="UnitedKingdomPublicGeneralAct" Number="49" Title="National Health Service Act 1977">National Health Service Act 1977 (c. 49)</Citation>
,
<CitationSubRef id="c04219" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1977/49/schedule/15/paragraph/61/e" Operative="true" CitationRef="c04218" SectionRef="schedule-15-paragraph-61-e">Sch. 15 para. 61(e)</CitationSubRef>
</Text>
</Para>
</Commentary>
<Commentary id="c780283" Type="M">
<Para>
<Text>
<Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1977/49" id="c04220" Year="1977" Class="UnitedKingdomPublicGeneralAct" Number="49">1977 c. 49</Citation>
.
</Text>
</Para>
</Commentary>
<Commentary id="c780322" Type="C">
<Para>
<Text>
<CitationSubRef id="c04278" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1974/7/section/31" UpTo="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1974/7/section/34" Type="group" StartSectionRef="section-31" EndSectionRef="section-34">Ss. 31–34</CitationSubRef>
modified by
<Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/uksi/1986/452" id="c04279" Class="UnitedKingdomStatutoryInstrument" Year="1986" Number="452">S.I. 1986/452</Citation>
,
<CitationSubRef id="c04280" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/uksi/1986/452/article/8/3" Operative="true" CitationRef="c04279" SectionRef="article-8-3">art. 8(3)</CitationSubRef>
</Text>
</Para>
</Commentary>
<Commentary id="c780323" Type="F">
<Para>
<Text>
Words repealed by
<Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1985/51" id="c04281" Year="1985" Class="UnitedKingdomPublicGeneralAct" Number="51" Title="Local Government Act 1985">Local Government Act 1985 (c. 51, SIF 81:1)</Citation>
,
<CitationSubRef id="c04282" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1985/51/section/1" CitationRef="c04281" SectionRef="section-1">ss. 1</CitationSubRef>
,
<CitationSubRef id="c04283" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1985/51/section/102" CitationRef="c04281" SectionRef="section-102">102</CitationSubRef>
,
<CitationSubRef id="c04284" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1985/51/schedule/17" Operative="true" CitationRef="c04281" SectionRef="schedule-17">Sch. 17</CitationSubRef>
</Text>
</Para>
</Commentary>
<Commentary id="c780324" Type="F">
<Para>
<Text>
Words inserted by
<Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1988/4" id="c04285" Year="1988" Class="UnitedKingdomPublicGeneralAct" Number="4" Title="Norfolk and Suffolk Broads Act 1988">Norfolk and Suffolk Broads Act 1988 (c. 4, SIF 81:1)</Citation>
,
<CitationSubRef id="c04286" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1988/4/section/21" CitationRef="c04285" SectionRef="section-21">ss. 21</CitationSubRef>
,
<CitationSubRef id="c04287" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1988/4/section/23/2" CitationRef="c04285" SectionRef="section-23-2">23(2)</CitationSubRef>
,
<CitationSubRef id="c04288" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1988/4/section/27/2" CitationRef="c04285" SectionRef="section-27-2">27(2)</CitationSubRef>
,
<CitationSubRef id="c04289" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1988/4/schedule/6/paragraph/12" Operative="true" CitationRef="c04285" SectionRef="schedule-6-paragraph-12">Sch. 6 para. 12</CitationSubRef>
</Text>
</Para>
</Commentary>
<Commentary id="c780325" Type="F">
<Para>
<Text>
Definition repealed by
<Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1989/42" id="c04290" Year="1989" Class="UnitedKingdomPublicGeneralAct" Number="42" Title="Local Government and Housing Act 1989">Local Government and Housing Act 1989 (c. 42, SIF 81:1, 2)</Citation>
,
<CitationSubRef id="c04291" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1989/42/section/194/4" CitationRef="c04290" SectionRef="section-194-4">s. 194(4)</CitationSubRef>
,
<CitationSubRef id="c04292" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1989/42/schedule/12/part/II" Operative="true" CitationRef="c04290" SectionRef="schedule-12-part-II">Sch. 12 Pt. II</CitationSubRef>
</Text>
</Para>
</Commentary>
<Commentary id="c780326" Type="M">
<Para>
<Text>
<Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1972/70" id="c04293" Year="1972" Class="UnitedKingdomPublicGeneralAct" Number="70">1972 c. 70</Citation>
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</Commentary>
</Commentaries>
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