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Local Government Act 1974

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10Supplementary provisions for Part I

(1)The following bodies are local authorities for the purposes of this Part of this Act, namely,—

(a)the council of a county,

(b)the Greater London Council,

(c)the council of a district,

(d)the council of a London borough,

(e)the Common Council of the City of London, and

(f)the Council of the Isles of Scilly,

and for the purposes of the provisions of this Act relating to the domestic element the Sub-Treasurer of the Inner Temple and the Under Treasurer of the Middle Temple shall also be local authorities.

(2)In this Part of this Act—

  • " the amount available for grants " has the meaning assigned to it by section 1(2) above ;

  • " the appropriate Minister " means, in relation to any matter, the Minister in charge of the Government department concerned or primarily concerned with that matter;

  • " the domestic element ", " the needs element " and " the resources element " shall be construed in accordance with section 2(1) above ;

  • " prescribed " means prescribed by a rate support grant order; and

  • " year " means a period of twelve months beginning with 1st April.

(3)The Secretary of State may make regulations for carrying the provisions of sections 1 to 5 of and Schedule 2 to this Act into effect and, without prejudice to the generality of this provision,—

(a)for determining the manner in which any calculation or estimate is to be made for any of the purposes of those provisions:

(b)for determining the authority or person by or to whom any information required for those purposes is to be given and the time at which and the form in which it is to be given ;

(c)for providing that the calculations or estimates by reference to which any payments are made may be treated as either conclusive or provisional or conclusive for some purposes and provisional for other purposes and, in so far as they are treated as provisional, for the making of further calculations or estimates based on information not previously available and for adjusting, in the light thereof, any payment already made;

and regulations under this subsection may make different provisions for different circumstances.

(4)Any power conferred by any provision of this Part of this Act to make regulations shall be exercisable by statutory instrument, which shall be subject to annulment in pursuance of a resolution of either House of Parliament.

(5)Before making regulations under any provision of this Part of this Act, the Secretary of State shall consult with such associations of local authorities as appear to him to be concerned and with any local authority with whom consultation appears to him to be desirable.

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