22. In section 80(1), in the definition of “local authority”, for the words from “the council” to “drainage board” there shall be substituted the following–
“(a)a charging authority, a precepting authority, a combined police authority or a combined fire authority, as defined in section 144 of the Local Government Finance Act 1988;
(b)a levying body within the meaning of section 74 of that Act; and
(c)a body as regards which section 75 of that Act applies”.