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Statutory Instruments
LOCAL GOVERNMENT, ENGLAND AND WALES
Made
10th August 1995
Laid before Parliament
17th August 1995
Coming into force
7th September 1995
The Secretary of State in exercise of the powers conferred on him by sections 6(3) and 15(6) of the Local Government Act 1988(1), and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, hereby makes the following Regulations:
1.-(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Local Government Act 1988 (Competition) (Personnel Services) (Fire and Civil Defence Authorities) (England) Regulations 1995 and shall come into force on 7th September 1995.
(2) These Regulations apply to defined authorities in England only.
2. In these Regulations-
"the Act" means the Local Government Act 1988;
"the cost" means the estimated total annual cost including overheads;
"the specified proportion" means an amount equal to the product of the following formula-
where
an amount equal to the cost to a defined authority of the specified work;
an amount equal to 85% of T or £400,000, whichever is greater;
for the period ending on 31st March 1999 or five years after work was awarded, whichever is the shorter, an amount equal to the cost of specified work which is being carried out by a defined authority following voluntary competitive tendering;
an amount equal to the cost of specified work carried out by a defined authority on behalf of a school with a delegated budget provided under a scheme prepared in accordance with section 33 of the Education Reform Act 1988(2);
until 1st April 1999, an amount equal to the cost of specified work which is being carried out by a defined authority in connection with functional work falling within the defined activity mentioned in section 2(2)(h) of the Act (housing management)(3)where that functional work is not subject to section 6 of the Act;
an amount equal to the cost of specified work carried out by a defined authority in connection with functional work falling within any defined activity where that functional work is being carried out by a defined authority in accordance with the provisions of the Act;
an amount equal to the cost of specified work carried out by a defined authority in connection with functional work to which Part III of the Local Government, Planning and Land Act 1980(4)applies where that functional work is being carried out by a defined authority in accordance with the provisions of that Act; and
an amount equal to the cost of specified work falling within paragraph 15(1)(g) of Schedule 1 to the Act where that work is wholly or partly funded by a grant made pursuant to section 1 of the Education (Grants and Awards) Act 1984(5);
"specified work" means work of any description falling within the defined activity mentioned in section 2(2)(n) of the Act (personnel services)(6)other than work carried out by a bidding authority to which section 4 of the Act (works contracts: restrictions) applies;
"voluntary competitive tendering" means the awarding of work before 1st April 1994 following a competitive process in the course of which at least 3 persons who are not defined authorities were invited to tender for that work.
3. Section 6 of the Act shall apply to the specified proportion of any specified work if it is proposed to be carried out on or after 1st october 1996 by a |fi|re authority constituted by a combination scheme, a metropolitan county fire and civil defence authority or by the London Fire and Civil Defence Authority.
Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for the Environment
Paul Beresford
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State,
Department of the Environment
10th August 1995
(This note is not part of the Regulations)
These regulations make provision under Part 1 of the Local Government Act 1988 (|doquote|the Act|dcquote|) in respect of the defined activity of personnel services.
Regulation 2 applies section 6 of the Act to a speci|fi|ed proportion of this activity from the dates specified in that regulation, so that from those dates the defined authorities listed in that regulation are required to compete for such work if they wish to carry it out themselves. S.I. 1995/2101 makes similar provisions for certain other defined authorities.
1988 c. 9; Section 6 is amended by paragraph 12 of Schedule 1 to the Local Government Act 1992 (c. 19).
Section 2(2)(h) was inserted by S.I. 1994/1671.
Section 2(2)(n) was inserted by S.I. 1994/0000.
