The Local Government Act 1988 (Defined Activities) (Exemption) (Stoke on Trent City Council) Order 1999

Statutory Instruments

1999 No. 315

LOCAL GOVERNMENT, ENGLAND AND WALES

The Local Government Act 1988 (Defined Activities) (Exemption) (Stoke on Trent City Council) Order 1999

Made

10th February 1999

Laid before Parliament

17th February 1999

Coming into force

10th March 1999

The Secretary of State, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by sections 2(9) and 15(5) of the Local Government Act 1988(1), and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, hereby makes the following Order:

Citation and commencement

1.  This Order may be cited as the Local Government Act 1988 (Defined Activities) (Exemption) (Stoke on Trent City Council) Order 1999 and shall come into force on 10th March 1999.

Exemption of repair, maintenance and management of vehicles

2.  The repair and maintenance of vehicles(2), and the management of vehicles(3) by Stoke on Trent City Council shall not be treated as defined activities so long as they are carried out during the period beginning with 10th March 1999 and ending immediately before 1st June 1999.

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State

Hilary Armstrong

Minister of State,

Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions

10th February 1999

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order)

Under Part I (competition) of the Local Government Act 1988 work falling within certain defined activities may be carried out by local authorities only if particular conditions are fulfilled.

This Order exempts from the requirements of Part I the repair, maintenance and management of vehicles by Stoke on Trent City Council from 10th March 1999 to 31st May 1999.

(1)

1988 c. 9.

(2)

See section 2(2)(g) of, and paragraph 7 of Schedule 1 to, the Local Government Act 1988.

(3)

See section 2(2)(gg) of, and paragraph 7A of Schedule 1 to, the Local Government Act 1988, inserted by S.I. 1994/2884.