The Revenue Support Grant (Specified Bodies) (Amendment) (England) Regulations 2003

Statutory Instruments

2003 No. 5

LOCAL GOVERNMENT, ENGLAND

The Revenue Support Grant (Specified Bodies) (Amendment) (England) Regulations 2003

Made

6th January 2003

Laid before Parliament

10th January 2003

Coming into force

31st January 2003

The First Secretary of State, after consultation with such representatives of local government as appear to him to be appropriate, in exercise of the powers conferred by section 76(4) of the Local Government Finance Act 1988(1), and all other powers enabling him in that behalf, hereby makes the following Regulations:

Citation, Application and Commencement

1.  These Regulations, which apply to England only, may be cited as the Revenue Support Grant (Specified Bodies) (Amendment) (England) Regulations 2003 and shall come into force on 31st January 2003.

Amendment of Regulations

2.  In paragraph (h) of regulation 3 (specified bodies) of the Revenue Support (Specified Bodies) Regulations 1992(2) for the words “Co-ordinating Body on Food and Trading Standards” there is substituted “Co-ordinators of Regulatory Services”.

Signed by authority of the First Secretary of State

Nick Raynsford

Minister of State,

Office of the Deputy Prime Minister

6th January 2003

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

Sections 78 and 79 of the Local Government Finance Act 1988 provide for revenue support grant to be payable to any body which provides services for local authorities and which is specified by the Secretary of State in regulations.

These Regulations amend regulation 3 of the Revenue Support Grant (Specified Bodies) Regulations 1992 by amending the entry for the Local Authorities Co-ordinating Body on Food and Trading Standards to read the Local Authorities Co-ordinators of Regulatory Services. This amendment was required due to a change of name of the body following a change to its co-ordination role on behalf of local authorities.

(1)

1988 c. 41. Section 76 was amended by the Local Government Finance Act 1992 (c. 19), Schedule 10, paragraph 8. These powers are devolved, in relation to Wales, to the National Assembly for Wales by the National Assembly for Wales (Transfer of Functions) Order 1999 (S.I. 1999/672), see the entry for the Local Government Finance Act 1988 in Schedule 1.

(2)

S.I. 1992/89, amended by S.I. 1993/139, 1995/3184 and 1998/2995.