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Natural Environment and Rural Communities Act 2006

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84Agreements with local authorities
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(1)This section applies where a local authority is authorised under an agreement to perform a function.

(2)Subject to subsection (5), the function that the local authority is authorised to perform is to be treated as a function of the local authority for the purposes of—

(a)any power of a local authority to arrange for the discharge of the function by any person mentioned in subsection (3), and

(b)any power of a person mentioned in subsection (3) to arrange for the discharge of a function by any other person mentioned there.

(3)The persons are any committee, sub-committee, member, officer or employee of the local authority.

(4)“Committee” does not include a joint committee of two or more local authorities.

(5)If the local authority is operating executive arrangements—

(a)the function is to be treated as a function of the local authority for the purposes of section 13 of the Local Government Act 2000 (c. 22), and

(b)if (or to the extent that) the function is the responsibility of the executive of the local authority—

(i)subsection (2) does not apply, and

(ii)sections 14 to 16 of the 2000 Act, and any regulations made under sections 17 and 18 of the 2000 Act, apply.

(6)“Executive arrangements” and “executive” have the same meaning as in Part 2 of the 2000 Act.

(7)An agreement may provide that the provisions of subsection (2) or those mentioned in subsection (5)(b)(ii) do not apply (or do not apply to a specified extent).

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