The Local Government (Direct Labour Organisations) (Competition) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 1991

Statutory Instruments

1991 No. 243 (S.18)

LOCAL GOVERNMENT, SCOTLAND

The Local Government (Direct Labour Organisations) (Competition) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 1991

Made

11th February 1991

laid before Parliament

25th February 1991

Coming into force

1st April 1991

The Secretary of State, in exercise of the powers conferred upon him by sections 7, 9(3) and 23(1) of the Local Government, Planning and Land Act 1980(1) and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, hereby makes the following Regulations:

Citation, commencement, extent and interpretation

1.—(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Local Government (Direct Labour Organisations) (Competition) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 1991 and shall come into force on 1st April 1991.

(2) These Regulations shall extend only to Scotland.

(3) In these Regulations “the principal Regulations” means the Local Government (Direct Labour Organisations) (Competition) (Scotland) Regulations 1990(2).

Amendment of the principal Regulations

2.  In regulations 6(2) and 8(3) of the principal Regulations for the figure “70%” there shall be substituted the figure “40%”

Allan Stewart

Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Scottish Office

St Andrew’s House,

Edinburgh

11th February 1991

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations amend the Local Government (Direct Labour Organisations) (Competition) (Scotland) Regulations 1990 (“the principal Regulations”) in their application to highway work.

Regulations 6 and 8 of the principal Regulations apply to general highway works carried out in a financial year, either under a works contract or as functional work, and worth £25,000 or less, but only if the value of that contract or functional work and of all similar work worth £25,000 or less previously contracted for or carried out by the authority in the same financial year exceeds a specified percentage of the total value of such work contracted for or carried out in the preceding financial year.

These Regulations reduce the specified percentage from 70% to 40%.

(1)

1980 c. 65; section 7(1) and (3) was amended by, and section 7(1A) and (1B) was inserted by, the Local Government Act 1988 (c. 9), Schedule, paragraph 2.

(2)

S.I. 1990/1782.