The Local Authorities (Goods and Services) (Public Bodies) (No. 2) Order 1999

Statutory Instruments

1999 No. 1754

LOCAL GOVERNMENT, ENGLAND AND WALES

The Local Authorities (Goods and Services) (Public Bodies) (No. 2) Order 1999

Made

17th June 1999

Laid before Parliament

28th June 1999

Coming into force

19th July 1999

The Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions and the Secretary of State for Wales, acting jointly in exercise of the powers conferred by section 1(5) of the Local Authorities (Goods and Services) Act 1970(1), hereby make the following Order:

Citation and commencement

1.  This Order may be cited as the Local Authorities (Goods and Services) (Public Bodies) (No. 2) Order 1999 and shall come into force on 19th July 1999.

Designation as a public body

2.  The following persons, who appear to the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions and to the Secretary of State for Wales to be exercising functions of a public nature, shall be public bodies for the purposes of the Local Authorities (Goods and Services) Act 1970 in its application to England and Wales:

• The Academy of Youth Limited(2),

• Coronation Park at Launceston, Cornwall(3),

• The New Opportunities Fund(4),

• The Preston and Western Lancashire Racial Equality Council(5),

• Renaisi Limited(6).

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions

Alan Meale

Minister of State,

Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions

16th June 1999

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Wales

Jon Owen Jones

Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State,

Welsh Office

17th June 1999

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order)

Article 2 of this Order designates The Academy of Youth Limited, Coronation Park (at Launceston, Cornwall), the New Opportunities Fund, the Preston and Western Lancashire Racial Equality Council and Renaisi Limited as public bodies under section 1(5) of the Local Authorities (Goods and Services) Act 1970. The effect of designation is to allow a local authority to provide goods and services to the designated body.

(1)

1970 c. 39. The power conferred on the Minister of Housing and Local Government is exercisable by the Secretary of State: S.I. 1970/1681, and see also S.I. 1997/2971.

(2)

A company limited by guarantee, and a charity (registered no. 1061308/0).

(3)

A charity (registered no. 3010395).

(4)

Established by section 43A of the National Lottery etc. Act 1993 (c. 39). Section 43A was inserted by the National Lottery Act 1998 (c. 22), section 7(2).

(5)

A charity (registered no. 703071).

(6)

A private company limited by guarantee (Company No. 3532867). The company, which was originally incorporated under the name “Hackney Regeneration Agency Limited”, changed its name by special resolution.