2Power to extend or disapply
(1)The Secretary of State may by order provide that any of the authorities and bodies mentioned in subsection (2) is a best value authority for the purposes of this Part.
(2)The authorities and bodies are—
(a)a local precepting authority within the meaning of section 39(2) of the [1992 c. 14.] Local Government Finance Act 1992;
(b)a levying body within the meaning of section 74(1) of the [1988 c. 41.] Local Government Finance Act 1988;
(c)a body to which section 75 of that Act applies (special levies).
(3)An order under subsection (1) providing for an authority or body to be a best value authority may provide for section 7 to have effect in relation to that authority or body with specified modifications.
(4)The Secretary of State may by order provide for the Greater London Authority to be a best value authority for the purposes of this Part in relation to—
(a)specified functions of the Authority which it does not exercise through the Mayor;
(b)specified functions which are not functions of the Authority but are functions of another best value authority;
and an order may provide for this Part to have effect in relation to those functions with specified modifications.
(5)The Secretary of State may by order provide that a best value authority specified, or of a description specified, in the order is not to be subject, in relation to such functions as may be specified, to a duty—
(a)which is specified in the order, and
(b)to which the authority would otherwise be subject under this Part.
(6)No order shall be made under this section unless a draft has been laid before, and approved by resolution of, each House of Parliament.