The Local Authorities (Goods and Services) (Public Bodies) (No. 1) Order 1999

Statutory Instruments

1999 No. 421

LOCAL GOVERNMENT, ENGLAND AND WALES

The Local Authorities (Goods and Services) (Public Bodies) (No. 1) Order 1999

Made

22nd February 1999

Laid before Parliament

3rd March 1999

Coming into force

24th March 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) and (6) 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. 1) Order 1999 and shall come into force on 24th March 1999.

Designation as a public body

2.  The Borough of Havant Sport and Leisure Trust(2) (“the Trust”) and the Teacher Training Agency(3), being persons appearing 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.

Restriction on agreements

3.  Agreements which may be entered into by the Trust by virtue of this Order shall be restricted to those for the provision of administrative, professional or technical services by Havant Borough Council to the Trust.

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

18th February 1999

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Wales

Jon Owen Jones

Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Welsh Office

22nd February 1999

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order)

Article 2 of this Order designates the Borough of Havant Sport and Leisure Trust (“the Trust”) and the Teacher Training Agency 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.

By virtue of article 3, the agreements which the Trust may enter into under the 1970 Act are restricted to those for the provision of administrative, professional or technical services by Havant Borough Council to the Trust.

(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 not having a share capital.

(3)

The Agency was established by section 1 of the Education Act 1994 (c. 30).