The Local Government Act 1988 (Defined Activities) (Competition) (Wales) Regulations 1990

Citation and commencement

1.  These Regulations may be cited as the Local Government Act 1988 (Defined Activities) (Competition) (Wales) Regulations 1990 and shall come into force on 19th August 1990.

2.  In these Regulations—

“the Act” means the Local Government Act 1988;

“county police authority” means a police authority constituted under section 2 of the Police Act 1964(1);

“defined activity” means functional work(2) of any description falling within the defined activity mentioned in section 2(2)(ee)(3) of the Local Government Act 1988; but does not include work carried out elsewhere than in Wales;

“specified authority” means—

(i)

any body in Wales mentioned in section 1(1)(a), (b), (e) and (j) of the Act which is, or is treated as a defined authority for the purposes of Part I of the Act; and

(ii)

any joint committee which falls to be treated as a defined authority by section 1(4) of the Act and of which at least one of the members is an authority which is a specified authority by virtue of sub-paragraph (i) above.

Application of Section 6

3.—(1) Section 6 of the Act shall apply to functional work of any description falling within the defined activity if it is proposed to be carried out on or after 1st January 1992 by any specified authority other than a local authority or a police authority(4).

(2) Section 6 shall apply to functional work mentioned in paragraph (1) if it is proposed to be carried out on or after 1st January 1993 by a community council or a police authority other than a county police authority.

4.—(1) Section 6 shall apply to functional work falling within the defined activity if it is proposed to be carried out on or after the date specified in column 1 of the Schedule by the numbered group specified in column 2 of the Schedule.

(2) The reference in paragraph (1) to a numbered group is a reference to all of the authorities listed in the Schedule as members of the group bearing that number in that Schedule.

(3) This regulation shall apply to a county police authority as if it were a member of the same numbered group as the county council.

Specified periods

5.  The second condition, set out in section 7(3) of the Act, shall not be treated as fulfilled in respect of functional work falling within the defined activity if the period stated in the detailed specification by virtue of section 7(3)(c) is less than 4 years or exceeds 6 years.

David Hunt

Secretary of State for Wales

18th July 1990