Local Government Act 2003
Part 1Capital finance etc and accounts
Chapter 1Capital finance etc
Borrowing
1Power to borrow
2Control of borrowing
3Duty to determine affordable borrowing limit
4Imposition of borrowing limits
5Temporary borrowing
6Protection of lenders
Credit arrangements
7“Credit arrangements”
8Control of credit arrangements
Capital receipts
9“Capital receipt”
10Non-money receipts
11Use of capital receipts
Investment
12Power to invest
Risk management: England
12ARisk-mitigation directions
12BRisk thresholds
12CRestriction of power to give risk-mitigation directions
12DDuty to cooperate with independent expert
Miscellaneous
13Security for money borrowed etc
14Information
Supplementary
15Guidance
16“Capital expenditure”
17External funds
18Local authority companies etc
19Application to parish and community councils
20Directions
Chapter 2Accounts
21Accounting practices
22“Revenue account”
Chapter 3General
23“Local authority”
24Wales
Part 2Financial administration
25Budget calculations: report on robustness of estimates etc
26Minimum reserves
27Budget calculations: report on inadequacy of controlled reserve
28Budget monitoring: general
29Budget monitoring: Greater London Authority
30Authorisation of agreements during the prohibition period
Part 3Grants etc
Chapter 1Expenditure grant
31Power to pay grant
32Application to Greater London Authority
33Interpretation of Chapter 1
Chapter 2Other grants etc
34Best value grant: parishes
35Best value grant: communities
36Grants in connection with designation for service excellence
36AGrants by Ministers of the Crown in respect of best value authorities etc
36BGrants by Welsh Ministers in respect of Welsh principal councils
37Emergency financial assistance to combined fire authorities
38Local loans
39Payments towards local authority indebtedness
40Local government finance reports: Wales
Part 4Business improvement districts
BID arrangements
41Arrangements with respect to business improvement districts
42Joint arrangements
43Additional contributions and action
44Duty to comply with arrangements
BID levy
45BID levy
46Liability for BID levy
Administration etc
47BID Revenue Account
48Administration of BID levy etc
Procedure
49BID proposals
50Approval in ballot
51Power of veto
52Appeal against veto
53Commencement of BID arrangements
Miscellaneous
54Duration of BID arrangements etc
55Regulations about ballots
56Power to make further provision
57Crown application
58Wales
59Interpretation of Part 4
Part 5Non-domestic rates
60Submission of proposed rating lists
61Small business relief
62Calculation of non-domestic rating multiplier
63Rural settlement lists etc
64Relief for registered community amateur sports clubs
65Transitional relief
66Rating of meters
67Exemptions for agricultural buildings
68Exemption for places of religious worship
69Removal of power to prescribe rateable values
70Local retention of rates
71Adjustments for hardship relief
72Provision of information
73Interpretation of Part 5
Part 6Council tax
Liability and amount of tax
74Exception of students from joint and several liability
75Second and empty homes
76Billing authority’s power to reduce amount of tax payable
Valuation lists and bands
77Statutory revaluation cycle
78Power to change number of valuation bands
79Transitional arrangements
Enforcement
80Amendments relating to distress
81Charging orders: aggregation
82Quashing of liability orders
Other
83Major precepting authorities: combined fire authorities
84Amendment of section 67 of the Local Government Finance Act 1992
85Vacant dwellings: use of information obtained for council tax purposes
86Repeal of section 31 of the Local Government Act 1999
Part 7Housing finance etc
87Housing strategies and statements
88Housing Revenue Account business plans
89Housing Revenue Account subsidy: payment and calculation
90Housing Revenue Account subsidy: negative amounts
91Housing Revenue Accounts etc: adaptation of enactments
92Local housing authority houses: rents
Part 8Miscellaneous and general
Chapter 1Miscellaneous
Charging and trading
93Power to charge for discretionary services
94Power to disapply section 93(1)
95Power to trade in function-related activities through a company
96Regulation of trading powers
97Power to modify enactments in connection with charging or trading
98Procedure for orders under section 97: England
98AProcedure for orders under section 97: Wales
Performance categories
99Categorisation of English local authorities by reference to performance
100Exercise of powers by reference to authorities' performance categories
Contracting-out
101Staff transfer matters: general
102Staff transfer matters: pensions
2004 local government elections
103Power to change date of elections in England
104Power to change date of elections in Wales
Valuation Tribunal Service
105The Valuation Tribunal Service
106Transfer to Service of property, rights and liabilities
Audit Commission
107Auditors' public interest reports: time allowed for consideration
108Auditors' public interest reports: publicity
109Registered social landlords
110Financial year
111Delegation
Other
112Standards Board for England: delegation
113Standards committees and monitoring officers: delegation
114Paid time off for councillors not to be political donation
115Overview and scrutiny committees: voting rights of co-opted members
116Local polls
117Generally accepted accounting practice: power to amend enactments
118Appropriate sum under section 137(4) of the Local Government Act 1972
119Use of fixed penalties paid for litter and dog-fouling offences
120Regulation of cosmetic piercing and skin-colouring businesses
121Fire brigade establishment schemes: removal of Secretary of State’s functions
122Repeal of prohibition on promotion of homosexuality
Chapter 2General
123Orders and regulations
124General interpretation
125Application to Isles of Scilly
126Financial provisions
127Minor and consequential amendments and repeals
128Commencement
129Short title and extent
Local Government Act 2003
SCHEDULE 1Capital finance: parish and community councils and charter trustees
Introductory
1The following are local authorities for the purposes of this...
Borrowing
2(1) Subject to sub-paragraph (2), a local authority may borrow...
3(1) Where a local authority meets any expenditure by borrowing,...
Loans
4(1) A local authority may lend to a qualifying local...
“Fixed period”
5In this Schedule, references to the fixed period, in relation...
SCHEDULE 2Welsh local government finance reports
1In Part 5 of the Local Government Finance Act 1988...
2(1) In Schedule 8 to the Local Government Finance Act...
SCHEDULE 3Amendment of powers exercisable in relation to local authorities
Local Government and Housing Act 1989 (c. 42)
1The Local Government and Housing Act 1989 is amended as...
2In section 67 (orders under Part 5), at the end...
3In section 70 (requirements for companies under control or subject...
Local Government Act 1999 (c. 27)
4The Local Government Act 1999 is amended as follows.
5In section 4(2)(b) (different performance indicators or standards may be...
6(1) Section 5 (best value reviews) is amended as follows....
7In section 6 (best value performance plans), after subsection (4)...
8(1) Section 16 (power to modify enactments and confer new...
9In section 17 (orders under section 16: procedure), after subsection...
10(1) Section 19 (contracts: exclusion of non-commercial considerations) is amended...
Local Government Act 2000 (c. 22)
11The Local Government Act 2000 is amended as follows.
12(1) Section 3 (limits on power to promote well-being) is...
13In section 9 (procedures for orders under section 5 or...
14(1) Section 105 (orders and regulations) is amended as follows....
SCHEDULE 4The Valuation Tribunal Service
Membership, chairman and deputy chairman
1(1) The Service shall consist of not less than six...
Disqualification
2(1) A person shall be disqualified for being appointed as...
Tenure of office
3(1) Subject to the provisions of this Schedule, a member...
4(1) A person shall cease to be a member of...
5A person who ceases (otherwise than by virtue of paragraph...
Remuneration, pensions, etc of members
6(1) The Service shall pay to its members such remuneration...
Staff
7(1) The Service shall have a chief executive.
8(1) The Service may appoint such employees as it may...
9The Service shall not appoint an employee to be the...
Committees
10(1) The Service may establish committees. (2) Any committee established...
Proceedings
11Subject to the following provisions of this Schedule, the Service...
Delegation
12(1) The Service may, to such extent as it may...
Members' interests
13(1) A member of the Service who is in any...
14(1) Paragraph 13 shall apply in relation to meetings of...
Vacancies and defective appointments
15The validity of any proceedings of the Service shall not...
Minutes
16(1) Minutes shall be kept of proceedings of the Service...
Execution and proof of instruments
17(1) The application of the seal of the Service shall...
Money
18(1) The Secretary of State may pay grants and make...
19The Service shall comply with any notice given by the...
20(1) The Service shall— (a) keep proper accounts and proper...
The Public Records Act 1958 (c. 51)
21In Schedule 1 to the Public Records Act 1958 (definition...
The Parliamentary Commissioner Act 1967 (c. 13)
22In Schedule 2 to the Parliamentary Commissioner Act 1967 (departments...
The House of Commons Disqualification Act 1975 (c. 24)
23In Part 2 of Schedule 1 to the House of...
The Freedom of Information Act 2000 (c. 36)
24In Part 6 of Schedule 1 to the Freedom of...
The Enterprise Act 2002 (c. 40)
25(1) Paragraph 2(1)(c), (2) and (3) shall be taken to...
Status
26(1) The Service is not to be regarded as the...
Interpretation
27In this Schedule— “delegate” includes further delegate; “financial year” means—...
SCHEDULE 5Transfer schemes: further provision
Contents of transfer scheme
1(1) The property, rights and liabilities which may be transferred...
2A transfer scheme may define the property, rights and liabilities...
3A transfer scheme may contain provision— (a) for the creation,...
4A transfer scheme may include such supplemental, incidental, consequential and...
Effect of transfers
5(1) Anything done by or in relation to the transferor...
6There may be continued by or in relation to the...
7The Service shall be substituted for the transferor in any...
Continuity of employment, etc of transferred employees
8Where an employee of a valuation tribunal becomes an employee...
Modification of transfer scheme after appointed day
9(1) If, after the day appointed by a transfer scheme...
Provision of information to Secretary of State
10A valuation tribunal shall provide the Secretary of State with...
Consultation
11Before making a transfer scheme relating to the property, rights...
Stamp duty
12(1) Stamp duty shall not be chargeable on—
SCHEDULE 6Section 120: transition
Commencement not to affect existing application of section 15 of the 1982 Act
1The coming into force of section 120 shall not affect...
Commencement not to affect pending resolutions about the application of section 15 of the 1982 Act
2(1) This paragraph applies where immediately before the coming into...
Additional powers of commencement in relation to section 15 of the 1982 Act as amended
3(1) This paragraph applies where an authority has before the...
Effect of existing ear-piercing registrations following extension of control to cosmetic piercing
4(1) This paragraph applies where, immediately before section 15 of...
Interpretation
5In this Schedule, except paragraph 2(1)(a) and 3(1), any reference...
SCHEDULE 7Minor and consequential amendments
Fire Services Act 1947 (c. 41)
1In section 6 of the Fire Services Act 1947 (power...
Public Works Loans Act 1965 (c. 63)
2In section 2 of the Public Works Loans Act 1965...
Public Works Loans Act 1967 (c. 61)
3In section 2(2) of the Public Works Loans Act 1967...
Local Government Act 1972 (c. 70)
4In section 137(3) of the Local Government Act 1972 (which...
Local Government Act 1974 (c. 7)
5(1) Schedule 4 to the Local Government Act 1974 (the...
Stock Transfer Act 1982 (c. 41)
6In section 1(3)(b) of the Stock Transfer Act 1982 (extension...
Representation of the People Act 1985 (c. 50)
7(1) Section 15 of the Representation of the People Act...
Local Government Act 1988 (c. 9)
8Section 33 of the Local Government Act 1988 (restrictions on...
Local Government Finance Act 1988 (c. 41)
9(1) The Local Government Finance Act 1988 is amended as...
10In section 47 (discretionary relief), in subsections (1)(b) and (5),...
11In section 49 (reduction or remission of liability), in subsection...
12Section 76 shall become Chapter 1 of Part 5, entitled...
13Sections 78 to 84C shall become Chapter 2 of Part...
14In the Chapter 2 so formed, at the beginning there...
15In sections 78(1) and 78A(2) (which refer to revenue support...
16Section 85, together with the sections in Part 5 that...
17. . . . . . . . . ....
18In section 88 (transport grants: supplementary), in subsections (4) and...
19In section 90 (payments to and from collection funds), in...
20In section 138 (judicial review), in subsection (2)(j), after “multiplier”...
21In section 139 (functions to be discharged only by authority),...
22In section 140(2) (Parts 3 and 5 of the Act...
23In section 141 (payments to and from authorities), in subsection...
24(1) Section 143 (orders and regulations) is amended as follows....
25(1) Schedule 7 (non-domestic rating multipliers) is amended as follows....
26(1) Schedule 8 (non-domestic rating: pooling) is amended as follows....
27In Schedule 11 (valuation tribunals)— (a) in paragraph 1 (power...
Local Government and Housing Act 1989 (c. 42)
28The Local Government and Housing Act 1989 is amended as...
29Part 4 (revenue accounts and capital finance of local authorities)...
30(1) Section 70 (requirements for companies under control or subject...
31For the second sentence of section 80A(4) (overpaid Housing Revenue...
32In section 88(1)(d) (construction of references in Part 6 to...
33(1) Schedule 4 (keeping of the Housing Revenue Account) is...
Social Security Administration Act 1992 (c. 5)
34The Social Security Administration Act 1992 is amended as follows....
35(1) In section 134(2) (forms that may be taken by...
36In section 140B (calculation of rent rebate subsidy, rent allowance...
37In section 140C (payment of subsidy), after subsection (1) there...
38In section 140D (rent rebate subsidy: accounting provisions), the following...
39In section 140G (interpretation of Part 8), in the definition...
Local Government Finance Act 1992 (c. 14)
40The Local Government Finance Act 1992 is amended as follows....
41In section 11(2) (discounts), for “section 12” there is substituted...
42In section 13(3) (reduced amounts), after “section 11” there is...
43(1) In section 17 (completion of new dwellings), in subsection...
44In section 21 (valuations for purposes of lists), in subsection...
45In section 22(2) (when valuation list comes into force), for...
46In section 24 (alteration of lists), in subsection (9)(b), for...
47Section 25 (compilation and maintenance of new lists) ceases to...
48In section 28 (information about lists)— (a) in subsection (2)(a),...
49In section 66(2) (matters subject only to judicial review), in...
50In section 67 (functions to be discharged only by the...
51(1) Section 69 (interpretation of Part 1) is amended as...
52(1) Section 113 (orders and regulations) is amended as follows....
53(1) Schedule 2 (administration) is amended as follows.
54In Schedule 4 (enforcement), at the end there is inserted—...
55In Schedule 13 (minor and consequential amendments), in paragraph 80...
Local Government (Wales) Act 1994 (c. 19)
56The Local Government (Wales) Act 1994 is amended as follows....
57In section 51 (control of disposals and contracts), in subsection...
58(1) Section 63 (regulations, orders and directions) is amended as...
Deregulation and Contracting Out Act 1994 (c. 40)
59In section 71(3) of the Deregulation and Contracting Out Act...
Housing Act 1996 (c. 52)
60(1) In section 122(4) of the Housing Act 1996 (which...
Justices of the Peace Act 1997 (c. 25)
61The Justices of the Peace Act 1997 is amended as...
62In section 67 (justices not disqualified by reason of liability...
63In section 72(1) (interpretation), for the definition of “capital expenditure”...
Local Government (Contracts) Act 1997 (c. 65)
64In section 1(3) of the Local Government (Contracts) Act 1997...
Audit Commission Act 1998 (c. 18)
65In Schedule 1 to the Audit Commission Act 1998 (which...
School Standards and Framework Act 1998 (c. 31) and Education Act 2002 (c. 32)
66(1) Sections 45A and 45B of the School Standards and...
Government of Wales Act 1998 (c. 38)
67. . . . . . . . . ....
Greater London Authority Act 1999 (c. 29)
68The Greater London Authority Act 1999 is amended as follows....
69(1) Section 52 (meetings of the London Assembly) is amended...
70. . . . . . . . . ....
71Sections 112 to 118 (credit approvals) cease to have effect....
72(1) Section 119 (power to redistribute capital receipts of functional...
73In section 120 (capital grants between the Greater London Authority...
74In section 121 (revenue grants between the Greater London Authority...
75(1) Section 122 (Mayor’s capital spending plan for each functional...
76In section 123 (preparation of capital spending plan), for subsection...
77(1) Section 124 (admissible factors in preparing capital spending plan...
78(1) Section 126 (interpretation of Chapter 4) is amended as...
National Assembly for Wales (Transfer of Functions) Order 1999 (S.I. 1999/672)
79In Schedule 1 to the National Assembly for Wales (Transfer...
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
80. . . . . . . . . ....
Homelessness Act 2002 (c. 7)
81In section 3(9) of the Homelessness Act 2002 (public’s rights...
SCHEDULE 8Repeals and revocations
Part 1Repeals
Part 2Revocations

Local Government Act 2003

2003 c. 26

An Act to make provision about finance, and other provision, in connection with local and certain other authorities; to provide for changing the dates of local elections in 2004; to amend the Audit Commission Act 1998; and for connected purposes.

Be it enacted by the Queen’s most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—C1C2

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