Local Government Act 1999

2 Power to extend or disapply

(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) a local precepting authority within the meaning of section 39(2) of the [1992 c. 14.] Local Government Finance Act 1992;

(b) a levying body within the meaning of section 74(1) of the [1988 c. 41.] Local Government Finance Act 1988;

(c) a body to which section 75 of that Act applies (special levies).

(3) An order under subsection (1) providing for an authority or body to be a best value authority may provide for section 7 to have effect in relation to that authority or body with specified modifications.

(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 a duty—

(a) which is specified in the order, and

(b) to which the authority would otherwise be subject under this Part.

(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.