The Local Authorities (Publicity Account) (Exemption) Order 1987

Article 7

SCHEDULE DESCRIPTIONS OF EXEMPT PUBLICITY

1.  Any notice, advertisement, plan or other document where a specific obligation to publish it is imposed on the local authority by or under any enactment.

2.  Invitations to tender, or publicity connected with the manner in which tenders are to be invited.

3.  Publicity promoting the use, or informing the public about the availability for use, of any building, amenity or facility which is wholly or partly provided or maintained by the local authority.

4.  A guidebook, programme, or admission ticket to any such building, amenity or facility.

5.  Publicity which has been approved by or on behalf of a chief officer of police for the area of the local authority, and which is issued for one or more of the following purposes—

(a) to further human safety;

(b) to protect property;

(c) to assist in the prevention or detection of crime;

(d) to assist in the maintenance of law and order;

(e) to discourage the commission of offences.

6.  Publicity which is issued for one or more of the following purposes—

(a) to increase public awareness of the dangers of fire (either generally or in relation to specific fire hazards); or

(b) to give practical information or advice on fire prevention, or on action to be taken in the event of fire.

7.  A traffic sign required or permitted by or under Part V or VI of the Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984(1) or a signpost erected, placed or maintained along a footpath or bridleway pursuant to section 27 of the Countryside Act 1968(2).

8.  Practical information or advice about road traffic conditions.

9.  A name or number given or assigned to a building or buildings, street, way or place, and where a record of names and numbers is maintained, any information supplied as to the content of that record.

10.  Publicity which is addressed to tenants of a dwelling owned or managed by the local authority, and which relates exclusively to one or more of the following matters—

(a) the rent payable for a dwelling;

(b) the terms of a tenancy;

(c) consultation of tenants on a matter of housing management pursuant to section 105 of the Housing Act 1985(3);

(d) the exercise by the tenants of rights conferred by Part IV or V of that Act;

(e) repairing obligations under section 11 to 16 of the Landlord and Tenant Act 1985(4).

11.  Publicity which is issued in the course of the normal management and running of an educational establishment and which consists of—

(a) information about courses or advisory services offered by that establishment; or

(b) publicity produced by its pupils; or

(c) a communication from any employee of an education authority, an administrator employed at the establishment, a member of its teaching staff, or its board of governors to—

(i) any of its pupils;

(ii) any of its former pupils;

(iii) prospective pupils or any description of prospective pupils;

(iv) parents, guardians or persons having custody of persons described in (i), (ii) or (iii).

12.  Publicity designed to assist users or potential users to locate, make use of, or otherwise benefit from social services provided by the local authority.

13.  Information about arrangements for the collection of waste.

14.  Communications to current or former employees of the local authority about any matter arising out of their employment.

15.  Communications to a beneficiaries or potential beneficiaries of a superannuation fund administered by the local authority about any matter arising out of entitlement to benefits.

(1)

1984 c. 27.

(2)

1968 c. 41.

(3)

1985 c. 68, amended by the Housing and Planning Act 1986 (c. 63).

(4)

1985 c. 70.