SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 8Best value: minor and consequential amendments

Part 1Part 1 of Local Government Act 1999

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1

Section 2 (power to extend or disapply) is amended as follows.

2

In the title, at the end insert “ : Secretary of State ”.

3

In subsection (2)—

a

in paragraph (b), at the end insert “ 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 ”;

b

in paragraph (c), at the end insert “ and which as regards the financial year beginning in 1989 had power to levy a rate by reference to property in England ”.

4

Omit subsection (3) (power to apply section 7 with modifications).

5

In subsection (5), for the words from “to a duty” to the end substitute “ to the duty in section 3. ”

6

After subsection (5) insert—

5A

Subsection (5) does not apply in relation to a Welsh best value authority.