The Local Authorities (Goods and Services) (Public Bodies) Order 2000

Statutory Instruments

2000 No. 63

LOCAL GOVERNMENT, ENGLAND

The Local Authorities (Goods and Services) (Public Bodies) Order 2000

Made

17th January 2000

Laid before Parliament

18th January 2000

Coming into force

8th February 2000

The Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 1(5) and (6) and 2(5) of the Local Authorities (Goods and Services) Act 1970 and now vested in him(1) hereby makes the following Order:

Citation, commencement and extent

1.—(1) This Order may be cited as the Local Authorities (Goods and Services) (Public Bodies) Order 2000 and shall come into force on 8th February 2000.

(2) This Order extends to England only(2).

Designation as a public body

2.  Each of the persons named in column (1) of the Schedule to this Order, being a person appearing to the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions to be exercising functions of a public nature, shall be a public body for the purposes of the Local Authorities (Goods and Services) Act 1970.

Restrictions on agreements

3.  Agreements which may be entered into by virtue of this Order by any of the bodies mentioned in article 2 above shall, where an authority is named in relation to it in column (2) of the Schedule to this Order, be restricted to agreements with an authority so named.

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions

Beverley Hughes

Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State

Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions

17th January 2000

Articles 2 and 3

SCHEDULE

(1) Name of designated body	(2) Name of authorities
Boston Volunteer Charity(3)	Boston Borough Council
Tees Valley Leisure Limited(4)	Redcar and Cleveland Borough Council
West Cumbria Estates Management Limited(5)	Cumbria County Council
Commission for Local Administration in England(6)
Manchester Commonwealth Games Limited(7) and Manchester 2002 Limited(8)	Allerdale Borough Council Barrow-in-Furness Borough Council Blackburn Borough Council Blackpool Borough Council Bolton Metropolitan Borough Council Burnley Borough Council Bury Metropolitan Borough Council Carlisle City Council Cheshire County Council Chester City Council Chorley Borough Concil Congleton Borough Council Copeland Borough Council Crewe and Nantwich Borough Council Cumbria County Council Eden District Council Ellesmere Port and Neston Borough Council Fylde Borough Council Guildford Borough Council Halton Borough Council Hyndburn Borough Council Knowsley Metropolitan Borough Council Lancashire County Council Lancaster City Council Liverpool City Council Macclesfield Borough Council Manchester City Council Oldham Metropolitan Borough Council Pendle Borough Council Preston Borough Council Ribble Valley Borough Council Rochdale Metropolitan Borough Council Rossendale Borough Council St Helens Metropolitan Borough Council Salford City Council Sefton Metropolitan Borough Council South Lakeland District Council South Ribble Borough Council Stockport Metropolitan Borough Council Surrey County Council Surrey Heath Borough Council Tameside Metropolitan Borough Council Trafford Metropolitan Borough Council Vale Royal Borough Council Warrington Borough Council West Lancashire District Council Wigan Metropolitan Borough Council Wirral Metropolitan Borough Council Wyre Borough Council

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order)

Article 2 of this Order designates the bodies listed in column (1) of the Schedule to the Order as public bodies under section 1(5) of the Local Authorities (Goods and Services) Act 1970.

The effect of designation is to allow all local authorities within the meaning of section 1(4) of the 1970 Act to provide goods and services to the designated public bodies by way of an agreement for the purposes prescribed in section 1(1) of the Local Authorities (Goods and Services) Act 1970.

By virtue of article 3, some of the bodies designated by this Order are restricted to making agreements with particular local authorities if any such authorities are named in relation to them in column (2) of the Schedule to the Order.

(1)

1970 c. 39 The power conferred on the Minister of Housing and Local Government is exercisable by the Secretary of State (S.I. 1970/1681, and see also S.I. 1997/2971).

(2)

The Secretary of State’s functions under the Local Authorities (Goods and Services) Act 1970, so far as exercisable in relation to Wales, are transferred to the National Assembly for Wales; see the National Assembly for Wales (Transfer of Functions) Order 1999 (S.I. 1999/672), article 2 and Schedule 1.

(3)

A company limited by guarantee, not having a share capital and registered under company number 3441399.

(4)

Registered under the Industrial and Provident Societies Acts 1965-78.

(5)

A company limited by shares and registered under company number 3729342.

(6)

A body established by Part III of the Local Government Act 1974.

(7)

A company limited by guarantee, not having a share capital and registered under company number 3150866.

(8)

A company limited by shares and registered under company number 3150364.