The Local Government Changes for England (Direct Labour Organisations) (East Riding of Yorkshire District Council) Order 1997

Functional work: tendering requirements applying to the authority

2.—(1) This article applies to building work of the authority undertaken in the supplementary reorganisation period, other than work to be undertaken under a single arrangement—

(a) which is to be completed in a period of less than a year, or

(b) which has an annual cost in any relevant year of less than £200,000.

(2) Subject to the following provisions of this article, nothing in section 9 of the Act shall require the authority to have complied with the conditions in subsection (4) of that section in relation to work to which this article applies.

(3) But the authority shall, in relation to work to which this article applies, draw up the conditions which would have been specified by them for the purposes of section 9(4)(a) of the Act but for paragraph (2).

(4) Nothing in this article shall be construed as preventing the Secretary of State from serving a notice under section 19A(1)(b) of the Act informing the authority that it appears to him—

(a) that they have estimated the annual cost of work to amount to £200,000 or more, but that the work is functional work which could most economically and efficiently be undertaken in more than one arrangement at least one of which would have an estimated annual cost of less than £200,000; or

(b) that the work is to be or was undertaken in a period of a year or more, but that it appears to him that it could most economically and efficiently be or have been undertaken in a period of less than a year;

and that it therefore appears to him that the provisions of section 9(4)(aaaa) of the Act have not been complied with as regards that work.