The Local Authorities (Goods and Services) (Public Bodies) (Trunk Roads) Order 1996

Local highway authority (minister) agreement

7.  An agreement is a local highway authority (minister) agreement if it is an agreement to which each of the following subparagraphs of this article applies:

(a) it is an agreement between the Secretary of State and a local authority, which is a county council, a county borough council, a unitary district council, a metropolitan district council or a London borough council, with respect to a trunk road or trunk road connected land which has been or is the subject of a DBFO contract, where:

(i) such road or land is inside the local authority’s area; or

(ii) if such road or land is outside the local authority’s area but within a London borough, a unitary district or a non-metropolitan county in England, the council of that borough, district or county has consented to the agreement between the local authority and the Secretary of State; or

(iii) if such road or land is outside the local authority’s area, but within a metropolitan district, or, within a county or county borough in Wales, the authority has consulted the council of that district, county or county borough prior to entering into the agreement with the Secretary of State;

(b) it is an agreement for:

(i) the provision by the local authority for the Secretary of State of any administrative, professional or technical services;

(ii) the use by the Secretary of State of any vehicle, plant or apparatus belonging to the local authority and the placing at the disposal of the Secretary of State of the services of any person employed in connection with the vehicle or other property in question; or

(iii) the carrying out by the local authority of works of maintenance in connection with land or buildings for the maintenance of which the Secretary of State is responsible; and

(c) the agreement does not provide for the delegation of any of the Secretary of State’s functions referred to in section 6(1) of the 1980 Act.