The Local Authorities (Goods and Services) (Public Bodies) (Trunk Roads) (No. 2) Order 1997

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order designates the Secretary of State for Transport, the Secretary of State for Wales and a DBFO contractor under the Local Authorities (Goods and Services) Act 1970 (article 3).

The purpose of this Order is to permit those local authorities (or the successors of such authorities) which have in the past carried out duties in connection with the removal of litter and refuse from, and the cleaning of, certain trunk roads, to provide similar services to DBFO contractors or either Secretary of State. The Order allows, in England, district councils, unitary county councils, London borough councils and the Common Council of the City of London and, in Wales. county councils and county borough councils to provide such services to—

(a) DBFO contractors (providing the conditions in articles 4 and 5 are fulfilled);

(b) the Secretary of State for Transport (providing the conditions in articles 6 and 7 are fulfilled); and

(c) the Secretary of State for Wales (providing the conditions in articles 6 and 7 are fulfilled).

DBFO contractors and each Secretary of State have already been designated under the Local Authorities (Goods and Services) Act 1970 by virtue of The Local Authorities (Goods and Services) (Public Bodies) (Trunk Roads) Order 1996 (S.I. 1996/342) (“the first Order”). The purpose of the first Order was to allow local highway authorities to provide certain services in connection with trunk roads to DBFO contractors and each Secretary of State subject to restrictions contained in that Order.