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(1)Every local authority who in any financial year undertake construction or maintenance work, whether under works contracts or by way of functional work or both, and every development body who in any financial year undertake construction or maintenance by way of functional work shall prepare a report in accordance with subsection (2) below on the construction or maintenance work undertaken by them during that financial year.
[F2(1A)A report under this section must include—
(a)a statement identifying such (if any) of the work undertaken as falls within construction or maintenance work by virtue of a decision under section 20(5) below; and
(b)a copy of each of the documents which it is required to prepare in accordance with section 13(1) above]]
(2)A report under this section shall be prepared not later than 30th September in the financial year following that to which it relates and shall include such information as the Secretary of State may direct relating to construction or maintenance work of any description specified in subsection (2) of section 10 above or in regulations under subsection (4) of that section.
[F3(2A)A local authority or development body who have prepared a report under this section shall send a copy to the Secretary of State and to their auditor not later than 31st October in the financial year following that to which the report relates.
(2B)Where a local authority’s or development body’s auditor has been sent a copy of a report in accordance with subsection (2A) above, he shall consider the [F4statement referred to in section 13(2)(c) above] a copy of which is contained in the report by virtue of subsection (1A)(b) above, and shall give his written opinion on the statement to the authority or body concerned and to the Secretary of State]
(3)Any person may inspect a report of a local authority or development body under this section and shall be supplied with a copy of the report by the authority or body on payment of such charge for a copy as they may reasonably require.
(4)A local authority or development body shall publish in at least one newspaper circulating in their area notice—
(a)of the place where and the time when any report under this section may be inspected;
(b)of the fact that copies of the report are available for supply to any person requiring them; and
(c)of the charge for each such copy.
[F5(5)For the purposes of subsections (2A) and (2B) above a local authority’s or development body’s auditor is the person who under any enactment is appointed, for the financial year for which the report is prepsred, to audit the accounts of the authority or body]
Textual Amendments
F1Pt. III (ss. 5-23) repealed (E.W.) (27.7.1999 with effect as mentioned in s. 21(1)(a) by 1999 c. 27, s. 34, Sch. 2(1), Note
F4Words in s. 18(2B) substituted (13.6.1994) by Local Government Act 1992 (c. 19), s. 11, Sch. 1 para. 5; S.I. 1994/1445, art. 2
Modifications etc. (not altering text)
C1S. 18 applied (9.1.1995) by S.I. 1994/3167, regs. 4, 6(1)
C2S. 18(2A) excluded (9.1.1995) by S.I. 1994/3167, reg. 7(2)
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