1998 No. 2995
LOCAL GOVERNMENT, ENGLAND AND WALES
The Revenue Support Grant (Specified Bodies) (Amendment) Regulations 1998
Made 3rd December 1998
Laid before Parliament 11th December 1998
Coming into force 1st January 1999

The Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, as respects England, and the Secretary of State for Wales, as respects Wales, after consultation with such representatives of local government as appear to them to be appropriate, in exercise of the power conferred on them by sections 76(4) and 140(4) of the Local Government Finance Act 1988, and of all other powers enabling them in that behalf, hereby make the following Regulations:
1988 c. 41. Section 76 was amended by the Local Government Finance Act 1992 (c. 19), Schedule 10, paragraph 8.

1 Citation and commencement
These Regulations may be cited as the Revenue Support Grant (Specified Bodies) (Amendment) Regulations 1998 and shall come into force on 1st January 1999.

2 Amendment of Regulations
In relation to any financial year beginning on or after 1st April 1999, regulation 3 (specified bodies) of the Revenue Support Grant (Specified Bodies) Regulations 1992 is amended–
(a) by the omission of paragraph (a); and
(b) by the addition, at the end, of–

“(k) Improvement and Development Agency for Local Government
(l) Employers' Organisation for Local Government”

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S.I.1992/89, amended by S.I.1993/139 and 1995/3184.
Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions
Hilary Armstrong Minister of State, Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions 3rd December 1998
Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Wales
Jon Owen Jones Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Welsh Office 2nd December 1998

(This note is not part of the Regulations)
Sections 78 and 79 of the Local Government Finance Act 1988 provide for revenue support grant to be payable to any body which provides services for local authorities and which is specified by the Secretary of State in regulations.
These Regulations amend regulation 3 of the Revenue Support Grant (Specified Bodies) Regulations 1992 by adding the Improvement and Development Agency for Local Government and the Employers' Organisation for Local Government to, and deleting the Local Government Management Board from, the list of specified bodies. The amendments have effect for financial years beginning on or after 1st April 1999.