The Common Council and New Successor Bodies (Chief Finance Officer) Regulations 1991

Citation, commencement and interpretation

2.  In these Regulations—

“the 1989 Act” means the Local Government and Housing Act 1989;

“authority”, unless the context otherwise requires, means an authority to which these Regulations apply in accordance with regulation 3;

“chief finance officer” means—

(a)

in relation to the Common Council, the person having responsibility for the administration of such of the Council’s financial affairs as relate to it in its capacity as a local authority, police authority or port health authority(1);

(b)

in relation to a pensions authority, the person having responsibility for the administration of its financial affairs(2);

“joint committee” means a committee on which two authorities are represented, and references to a committee (joint or otherwise) include references to a sub-committee; and

“pensions authority” means the South Yorkshire Pensions Authority and the London Pensions Fund Authority(3).

(1)

See section 6(1)(b) of the Local Government and Housing Act 1989.

(2)

See section 73 of the Local Government Act 1985 (c. 51) which is applied to the South Yorkshire Pensions Authority by the Local Government Reorganisation (Pensions etc.) (South Yorkshire) Order 1987 (S.I. 1987/2110), Schedule 1, paragraph 7(h); and to the London Pensions Fund Authority by the London Government Reorganisation (Pensions etc.) Order 1989 (S.I. 1989/1815), Schedule 1, paragraph 9, which was inserted by article 2 of the London Government Reorganisation (Pensions etc.) (Amendment) Order 1990 (S.I. 1990/198).

(3)

See article 2 of S.I. 1987/2110 and article 2 of S.I. 1989/1815.