The Local Government (Direct Labour Organisations) (Competition) (Amendment) (England) Regulations 1994

Statutory Instruments

1994 No. 1439

LOCAL GOVERNMENT, ENGLAND AND WALES

The Local Government (Direct Labour Organisations) (Competition) (Amendment) (England) Regulations 1994

Made

26th May 1994

Laid before Parliament

10th June 1994

Coming into force

1st April 1995

The Secretary of State, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by sections 7(1)(b), (4) and (6), 9(3) and 23(1) of the Local Government, Planning and Land Act 1980(1) and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, hereby makes the following Regulations:

Citation, commencement and interpretation

1.—(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Local Government (Direct Labour Organisations) (Competition) (Amendment) (England) Regulations 1994 and shall come into force on 1st April 1995.

(2) Expressions used in these Regulations which are also used in the Local Government (Direct Labour Organisations) (Competition) Regulations 1989(2) (“the principal regulations”) have the meanings which they bear in the principal regulations.

Amendment of 1989 Regulations

2.  In their application to local authorities and development bodies in England, the principal regulations are amended as follows.

General highways work

3.—(a) In regulation 6, the words from “if the value” to the end of sub-paragraph (a) of paragraph (1), and paragraph (2); and

(b) in regulation 8(1), the words from “if the estimated cost” in sub-paragraph (e) to the end of the regulation,

are omitted.

Gritting highways and snow clearing

4.  In regulations 7 and 9, paragraph (1)(b) is omitted.

Consequential provision

5.  In regulation 2(1), the definitions of “contractual highway work” and “relevant highway work” are omitted.

Tony Baldry

Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State,

Department of the Environment

26th May 1994

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

Regulation 3 of these Regulations (which apply in relation to local authorities and development bodies in England) amends regulations 6 and 8 of the Local Government (Direct Labour Organisations) (Competition) Regulations 1989, so that exemptions from competitive tendering requirements which apply in relation to a percentage of general highways work are removed. Regulation 5 effects consequential amendments.

Regulation 4 removes an exemption from tendering in relation to gritting of, and clearing snow from, highways.

(1)

1980 c. 65. Sections 7 and 9 are amended by the Local Government Act 1988 (c. 9), Schedule 6 paragraphs 2 and 3, and the Local Government Act 1992 (c. 19), Schedule 1 paragraphs 1 and 2.

(2)

S.I. 1989/1588.