The Local Government (Whole Authority Analyses and Improvement Plans) (Wales) (Amendment) Order 2004

Welsh Statutory Instruments

2004 No. 1575 (W.161)

LOCAL GOVERNMENT, WALES

The Local Government (Whole Authority Analyses and Improvement Plans) (Wales) (Amendment) Order 2004

Made

22 June 2004

Coming into force

30 June 2004

The National Assembly for Wales makes the following Order in exercise of the powers conferred on it by sections 6(3) and 29(1) of the Local Government Act 1999(1):

Name, commencement, interpretation and application

1.—(1) The name of this Order is the Local Government (Whole Authority Analyses and Improvement Plans) (Wales) (Amendment) Order 2004 and it shall come into force on 30 June 2004.

(2) In this Order —

“the 2002 Order” means the Local Government (Whole Authority Analyses and Improvement Plans) (Wales) Order 2002(2).

(3) This Order applies to best value authorities in Wales with the exception of those specified in section 1(1)(d) and (e) of the Local Government Act 1999.

Amendments to the 2002 Order

2.—(1) The 2002 Order is amended as follows.

(2) In article 3, at the beginning, there is inserted “Subject to article 3A,”.

(3) After article 3, there is inserted —

“Publication of improvement plans in financial year 2004-2005

3A.   For the financial year beginning on 1st April 2004 and ending on 31st March 2005, best value authorities must publish their improvement plan by 31 July 2004.”.

Signed on behalf of the National Assembly for Wales under section 66(1) of the Government of Wales Act 1998(3)

D. Elis-Thomas

The Presiding Officer of the National Assembly

22 June 2004

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order)

Part I of the Local Government Act 1999 (“the 1999 Act”) imposes duties on local and other authorities to conduct best value reviews of their functions and to prepare a best value performance plan for each financial year.

On 1st April 2002, the Local Government (Whole Authority Analyses and Improvement Plans) (Wales) Order 2002 (“the 2002 Order”) came into force. The 2002 Order was made by the National Assembly for Wales in pursuance of powers vested in it under the 1999 Act. The 2002 Order specified, among other things, the date by which an authority’s best value performance plan (called an “improvement plan” in the 2002 Order) must be published.

This Order amends the 2002 Order such that, for the purposes of financial year 2004-2005 only, county and county borough councils (including when they are acting as waste disposal authorities) and National Park authorities in Wales must publish their improvement plans by 31 July 2004.

(1)

1999 c. 27.

(2)

S.I. 2002/886 (W.101).

(3)

1998 c. 38.