Local Government, Planning and Land Act 1980

11 Exemption from requirement to keep seperate accounts under section 10.E+W+S

(1)Subsection (1) of section 10 above does not require a local authority or development to keep—

(a)in respect of any description of construction or maintenance work specified in subsection (2) of that section; or

(b)in respect of any description of such work specified in regulations under subsection (4) of that section,

accounts for any financial year separate from accounts kept for that year in respect of any other description of construction or maintenance work, if the local authority or development body did not at any one time in the previous financial year employ more than thirty persons, other than persons excluded by subsection (2) below, who were engaged (whether wholly or partly) in carrying out construction or maintenance work of that description.

(2)The persons excluded by this subsection are persons engaged wholly or mainly upon the design, development or control of construction or maintenance work.

(3)The Secretary of State may by order specify for the purposes of subsection (1) above a number of persons less than thirty.

(4)The power to make an order conferred by subsection (3) above shall be exercisable by statutory instrument.

(5)A statutory instrument containing such order shall be subject to annulment in pursuance of a resolution of either House of Parliament.

Modifications etc. (not altering text)

C1S. 11 applied (9.1.1995) by S.I. 1994/3167, regs. 4, 6(1)