Best value authoritiesE+W
1 Best value authorities.E+W
(1)For the purposes of this Part each of these is a best value authority—
[(a)an English local authority;]
(b)a National Park authority [for a National Park in England];
(c)the Broads Authority;
[(d)the Common Council of the City of London in its capacity as a police authority;]
[(e)a fire and rescue authority [in England] constituted by a scheme under section 2 of the Fire and Rescue Services Act 2004 or a scheme to which section 4 of that Act applies, and a metropolitan county fire and civil defence authority;]
[(f)the London Fire Commissioner;]
[(g)an authority established under section 10 of the Local Government Act 1985 (waste disposal authorities);]
(ga). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
[(h)an Integrated Transport Authority for an integrated transport area in England;]
[(ha)an economic prosperity board established under section 88 of the Local Democracy, Economic Development and Construction Act 2009;
(hb)a combined authority established under section 103 of that Act;]
[(hc)a sub-national transport body established under section 102E of the Local Transport Act 2008;]
[(hd)a combined county authority established under section 9(1) of the Levelling-up and Regeneration Act 2023;]
(i)Transport for London;
(j). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
(k). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
(2)[In this section, “English local authority” means]
(a)a county council [in England], a district council [or a London borough council];
(b)the Council of the Isles of Scilly;
(c)the Common Council of the City of London in its capacity as a local authority;
(d)the Greater London Authority so far as it exercises its functions through the Mayor.
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Textual Amendments
Commencement Information
2 Power to extend or disapply [: Secretary of State].E+W
(1)The Secretary of State may by order provide that any of the authorities and bodies mentioned in subsection (2) is a best value authority for the purposes of this Part.
(2)The authorities and bodies are—
(a). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
(b)a levying body within the meaning of section 74(1) of the Local Government Finance Act 1988 [ in respect of which the county council or charging authority referred to in section 74(1)(b) of that Act was a council or authority for an area in England];
(c)a body to which section 75 of that Act applies (special levies) [and which as regards the financial year beginning in 1989 had power to levy a rate by reference to property in England].
(3). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
(4)The Secretary of State may by order provide for the Greater London Authority to be a best value authority for the purposes of this Part in relation to—
(a)specified functions of the Authority which it does not exercise through the Mayor;
(b)specified functions which are not functions of the Authority but are functions of another best value authority;
and an order may provide for this Part to have effect in relation to those functions with specified modifications.
(5)The Secretary of State may by order provide that a best value authority specified, or of a description specified, in the order is not to be subject, in relation to such functions as may be specified, [to the duty in section 3.]
(5A). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
(6)No order shall be made under this section unless a draft has been laid before, and approved by resolution of, each House of Parliament.
Textual Amendments
Commencement Information
Marginal Citations
2APower to extend or disapply: [Welsh Ministers]E+W
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