SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 8Best value: minor and consequential amendments

Part 1Part 1 of Local Government Act 1999

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(1)

Section 2A (power of National Assembly for Wales to extend or disapply best value duties) is amended as follows.

(2)

In the title, for “best value authorities in Wales” substitute “ Welsh Ministers ”.

(3)

In subsections (1) and (4), for “National Assembly for Wales” substitute “ Welsh Ministers ”;

(4)

In subsections (1), (3) and (4) for “best value authority in Wales” substitute “ Welsh best value authority ”.

(5)

In subsection (2)—

(a)

in paragraph (a), 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 Wales ”;

(b)

in paragraph (b), 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 Wales ”.