Local Government Act 2003
Part 1Capital finance etc and accounts
Chapter 1Capital finance etc
Borrowing
1Power to borrow
2Control of borrowing
3Duty to determine affordable borrowing limit
4Imposition of borrowing limits
5Temporary borrowing
6Protection of lenders
Credit arrangements
7“Credit arrangements”
8Control of credit arrangements
Capital receipts
9“Capital receipt”
10Non-money receipts
11Use of capital receipts
Investment
12Power to invest
Miscellaneous
13Security for money borrowed etc
14Information
Supplementary
15Guidance
16“Capital expenditure”
17External funds
18Local authority companies etc
19Application to parish and community councils
20Directions
Chapter 2Accounts
21Accounting practices
22“Revenue account”
Chapter 3General
23“Local authority”
24Wales
Part 2Financial administration
25Budget calculations: report on robustness of estimates etc
26Minimum reserves
27Budget calculations: report on inadequacy of controlled reserve
28Budget monitoring: general
29Budget monitoring: Greater London Authority
30Authorisation of agreements during the prohibition period
Part 3Grants etc
Chapter 1Expenditure grant
31Power to pay grant
32Application to Greater London Authority
33Interpretation of Chapter 1
Chapter 2Other grants etc
34Best value grant: parishes
35Best value grant: communities
36Grants in connection with designation for service excellence
37Emergency financial assistance to combined fire authorities
38Loans by Public Works Loan Commissioners
39Payments towards local authority indebtedness
40Local government finance reports: Wales
Part 4Business improvement districts
BID arrangements
41Arrangements with respect to business improvement districts
42Joint arrangements
43Additional contributions and action
44Duty to comply with arrangements
BID levy
45BID levy
46Liability for BID levy
Administration etc
47BID Revenue Account
48Administration of BID levy etc
Procedure
49BID proposals
50Approval in ballot
51Power of veto
52Appeal against veto
53Commencement of BID arrangements
Miscellaneous
54Duration of BID arrangements etc
55Regulations about ballots
56Power to make further provision
57Crown application
58Wales
59Interpretation of Part 4
Part 5Non-domestic rates
60Submission of proposed rating lists
61Small business relief
62Calculation of non-domestic rating multiplier
63Rural settlement lists etc
64Relief for registered community amateur sports clubs
65Transitional relief
66Rating of meters
67Exemptions for agricultural buildings
68Exemption for places of religious worship
69Removal of power to prescribe rateable values
70Local retention of rates
71Adjustments for hardship relief
72Provision of information
73Interpretation of Part 5
Part 6Council tax
Liability and amount of tax
74Exception of students from joint and several liability
75Second and empty homes
76Billing authority’s power to reduce amount of tax payable
Valuation lists and bands
77Statutory revaluation cycle
78Power to change number of valuation bands
79Transitional arrangements
Enforcement
80Amendments relating to distress
81Charging orders: aggregation
82Quashing of liability orders
Other
83Major precepting authorities: combined fire authorities
84Amendment of section 67 of the Local Government Finance Act 1992
85Vacant dwellings: use of information obtained for council tax purposes
86Repeal of section 31 of the Local Government Act 1999
Part 7Housing finance etc
87Housing strategies and statements
88Housing Revenue Account business plans
89Housing Revenue Account subsidy: payment and calculation
90Housing Revenue Account subsidy: negative amounts
91Housing Revenue Accounts etc: adaptation of enactments
92Local housing authority houses: rents
Part 8Miscellaneous and general
Chapter 1Miscellaneous
Charging and trading
93Power to charge for discretionary services
94Power to disapply section 93(1)
95Power to trade in function-related activities through a company
96Regulation of trading powers
97Power to modify enactments in connection with charging or trading
98Procedure for orders under section 97
Performance categories
99Categorisation of English local authorities by reference to performance
100Exercise of powers by reference to authorities' performance categories
Contracting-out
101Staff transfer matters: general
102Staff transfer matters: pensions
2004 local government elections
103Power to change date of elections in England
104Power to change date of elections in Wales
Valuation Tribunal Service
105The Valuation Tribunal Service
106Transfer to Service of property, rights and liabilities
Audit Commission
107Auditors' public interest reports: time allowed for consideration
108Auditors' public interest reports: publicity
109Registered social landlords
110Financial year
111Delegation
Other
112Standards Board for England: delegation
113Standards committees and monitoring officers: delegation
114Paid time off for councillors not to be political donation
115Overview and scrutiny committees: voting rights of co-opted members
116Local polls
117Generally accepted accounting practice: power to amend enactments
118Appropriate sum under section 137(4) of the Local Government Act 1972
119Use of fixed penalties paid for litter and dog-fouling offences
120Regulation of cosmetic piercing and skin-colouring businesses
121Fire brigade establishment schemes: removal of Secretary of State’s functions
122Repeal of prohibition on promotion of homosexuality
Chapter 2General
123Orders and regulations
124General interpretation
125Application to Isles of Scilly
126Financial provisions
127Minor and consequential amendments and repeals
128Commencement
129Short title and extent
SCHEDULES
SCHEDULE 1Capital finance: parish and community councils and charter trustees
1Introductory
2Borrowing
3(1) Where a local authority meets any expenditure by borrowing,...
4Loans
5“Fixed period”
SCHEDULE 2Welsh local government finance reports
1In Part 5 of the Local Government Finance Act 1988...
2(1) In Schedule 8 to the Local Government Finance Act...
SCHEDULE 3Amendment of powers exercisable in relation to local authorities
1Local Government and Housing Act 1989 (c. 42)
2In section 67 (orders under Part 5), at the end...
3In section 70 (requirements for companies under control or subject...
4Local Government Act 1999 (c. 27)
5In section 4(2)(b) (different performance indicators or standards may be...
6(1) Section 5 (best value reviews) is amended as follows....
7In section 6 (best value performance plans), after subsection (4)...
8(1) Section 16 (power to modify enactments and confer new...
9In section 17 (orders under section 16: procedure), after subsection...
10(1) Section 19 (contracts: exclusion of non-commercial considerations) is amended...
11Local Government Act 2000 (c. 22)
12(1) Section 3 (limits on power to promote well-being) is...
13In section 9 (procedures for orders under section 5 or...
14(1) Section 105 (orders and regulations) is amended as follows....
SCHEDULE 4The Valuation Tribunal Service
1Membership, chairman and deputy chairman
2Disqualification
3Tenure of office
4(1) A person shall cease to be a member of...
5A person who ceases (otherwise than by virtue of paragraph...
6Remuneration, pensions, etc of members
7Staff
8(1) The Service may appoint such employees as it may...
9The Service shall not appoint an employee to be the...
10Committees
11Proceedings
12Delegation
13Members' interests
14(1) Paragraph 13 shall apply in relation to meetings of...
15Vacancies and defective appointments
16Minutes
17Execution and proof of instruments
18Money
19The Service shall comply with any notice given by the...
20(1) The Service shall— (a) keep proper accounts and proper...
21The Public Records Act 1958 (c. 51)
22The Parliamentary Commissioner Act 1967 (c. 13)
23The House of Commons Disqualification Act 1975 (c. 24)
24The Freedom of Information Act 2000 (c. 36)
25The Enterprise Act 2002 (c. 40)
26Status
27Interpretation
SCHEDULE 5Transfer schemes: further provision
1Contents of transfer scheme
2A transfer scheme may define the property, rights and liabilities...
3A transfer scheme may contain provision— (a) for the creation,...
4A transfer scheme may include such supplemental, incidental, consequential and...
5Effect of transfers
6There may be continued by or in relation to the...
7The Service shall be substituted for the transferor in any...
8Continuity of employment, etc of transferred employees
9Modification of transfer scheme after appointed day
10Provision of information to Secretary of State
11Consultation
12Stamp duty
SCHEDULE 6Section 120: transition
1Commencement not to affect existing application of section 15 of the 1982 Act
2Commencement not to affect pending resolutions about the application of section 15 of the 1982 Act
3Additional powers of commencement in relation to section 15 of the 1982 Act as amended
4Effect of existing ear-piercing registrations following extension of control to cosmetic piercing
5Interpretation
SCHEDULE 7Minor and consequential amendments
1Fire Services Act 1947 (c. 41)
2Public Works Loans Act 1965 (c. 63)
3Public Works Loans Act 1967 (c. 61)
4Local Government Act 1972 (c. 70)
5Local Government Act 1974 (c. 7)
6Stock Transfer Act 1982 (c. 41)
7Representation of the People Act 1985 (c. 50)
8Local Government Act 1988 (c. 9)
9Local Government Finance Act 1988 (c. 41)
10In section 47 (discretionary relief), in subsections (1)(b) and (5),...
11In section 49 (reduction or remission of liability), in subsection...
12Section 76 shall become Chapter 1 of Part 5, entitled...
13Sections 78 to 84C shall become Chapter 2 of Part...
14In the Chapter 2 so formed, at the beginning there...
15In sections 78(1) and 78A(2) (which refer to revenue support...
16Section 85, together with the sections in Part 5 that...
17In section 85(2) (which refers to additional grant being payable...
18In section 88 (transport grants: supplementary), in subsections (4) and...
19In section 90 (payments to and from collection funds), in...
20In section 138 (judicial review), in subsection (2)(j), after “multiplier”...
21In section 139 (functions to be discharged only by authority),...
22In section 140(2) (Parts 3 and 5 of the Act...
23In section 141 (payments to and from authorities), in subsection...
24(1) Section 143 (orders and regulations) is amended as follows....
25(1) Schedule 7 (non-domestic rating multipliers) is amended as follows....
26(1) Schedule 8 (non-domestic rating: pooling) is amended as follows....
27In Schedule 11 (valuation tribunals)— (a) in paragraph 1 (power...
28Local Government and Housing Act 1989 (c. 42)
29Part 4 (revenue accounts and capital finance of local authorities)...
30(1) Section 70 (requirements for companies under control or subject...
31For the second sentence of section 80A(4) (overpaid Housing Revenue...
32In section 88(1)(d) (construction of references in Part 6 to...
33(1) Schedule 4 (keeping of the Housing Revenue Account) is...
34Social Security Administration Act 1992 (c. 5)
35(1) In section 134(2) (forms that may be taken by...
36In section 140B (calculation of rent rebate subsidy, rent allowance...
37In section 140C (payment of subsidy), after subsection (1) there...
38In section 140D (rent rebate subsidy: accounting provisions), the following...
39In section 140G (interpretation of Part 8), in the definition...
40Local Government Finance Act 1992 (c. 14)
41In section 11(2) (discounts), for “section 12” there is substituted...
42In section 13(3) (reduced amounts), after “section 11” there is...
43(1) In section 17 (completion of new dwellings), in subsection...
44In section 21 (valuations for purposes of lists), in subsection...
45In section 22(2) (when valuation list comes into force), for...
46In section 24 (alteration of lists), in subsection (9)(b), for...
47Section 25 (compilation and maintenance of new lists) ceases to...
48In section 28 (information about lists)— (a) in subsection (2)(a),...
49In section 66(2) (matters subject only to judicial review), in...
50In section 67 (functions to be discharged only by the...
51(1) Section 69 (interpretation of Part 1) is amended as...
52(1) Section 113 (orders and regulations) is amended as follows....
53(1) Schedule 2 (administration) is amended as follows.
54In Schedule 4 (enforcement), at the end there is inserted—...
55In Schedule 13 (minor and consequential amendments), in paragraph 80...
56Local Government (Wales) Act 1994 (c. 19)
57In section 51 (control of disposals and contracts), in subsection...
58(1) Section 63 (regulations, orders and directions) is amended as...
59Deregulation and Contracting Out Act 1994 (c. 40)
60Housing Act 1996 (c. 52)
61Justices of the Peace Act 1997 (c. 25)
62In section 67 (justices not disqualified by reason of liability...
63In section 72(1) (interpretation), for the definition of “capital expenditure”...
64Local Government (Contracts) Act 1997 (c. 65)
65Audit Commission Act 1998 (c. 18)
66School Standards and Framework Act 1998 (c. 31) and Education Act 2002 (c. 32)
67Government of Wales Act 1998 (c. 38)
68Greater London Authority Act 1999 (c. 29)
69(1) Section 52 (meetings of the London Assembly) is amended...
70In section 85 (calculation by Greater London Authority of budget...
71Sections 112 to 118 (credit approvals) cease to have effect....
72(1) Section 119 (power to redistribute capital receipts of functional...
73In section 120 (capital grants between the Greater London Authority...
74In section 121 (revenue grants between the Greater London Authority...
75(1) Section 122 (Mayor’s capital spending plan for each functional...
76In section 123 (preparation of capital spending plan), for subsection...
77(1) Section 124 (admissible factors in preparing capital spending plan...
78(1) Section 126 (interpretation of Chapter 4) is amended as...
79National Assembly for Wales (Transfer of Functions) Order 1999 (S.I. 1999/672)
80Local Government Act 2000 (c. 22)
81Homelessness Act 2002 (c. 7)
SCHEDULE 8Repeals and revocations
Part 1Repeals
Part 2Revocations

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Local Government Act 2003

2003 CHAPTER 26

An Act to make provision about finance, and other provision, in connection with local and certain other authorities; to provide for changing the dates of local elections in 2004; to amend the Audit Commission Act 1998; and for connected purposes.

Be it enacted by the Queen’s most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—