The Revenue Support Grant (Specified Bodies) (Amendment) Regulations 1998

Statutory Instruments

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(1), and of all other powers enabling them in that behalf, hereby make the following Regulations:

Citation and commencement

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

Amendment of Regulations

2.  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(2) 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”.

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

Explanatory Note

(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.

(1)

1988 c. 41. Section 76 was amended by the Local Government Finance Act 1992 (c. 19), Schedule 10, paragraph 8.

(2)

S.I. 1992/89, amended by S.I. 1993/139 and 1995/3184.