Local Government in Scotland Act 2003
Part 1
Best value and accountability
Duty to secure best value
1
Local authorities' duty to secure best value
2
Considerations bearing on performance of duty under section 1
Enforcement
3
Action by Accounts Commission following report by Controller of Audit
4
Hearings under section 3 above
5
Action by local authorities on receipt of findings
Other provisions about best value
6
Accounts Commission’s studies and recommendations to include aspects of securing best value
Relaxation of rules about contracts and supply of goods and services
7
Local authority contracts: relaxation of exclusion of non-commercial considerations
8
Relaxation of restrictions on supply of goods and services etc. by local authorities
9
Special provision for local authority contracts for construction of buildings or works
10
Trading operations and accounts
Disposal of land for less than full value
11
Disposal of land by local authorities for less than full value
Accounts, finance and performance accountability
12
Proper accounting practices
13
Publication by local authorities of information about finance and performance
14
Application of this Part to other bodies
Part 2
Community planning
15
Community planning
16
Community planning: further provision
17
Reports and information
18
Guidance
19
Establishment of corporate bodies to co-ordinate and further community planning etc.
Part 3
Power to advance well-being
20
Power to advance well-being
21
Guidance on exercise of power under section 20
22
Limits on power under section 20
Part 4
Enforcement and scrutiny
23
Enforcement: preliminary notice
24
Enforcement directions
25
Scrutiny of local authorities' police and fire functions
26
Excess of power: preliminary notice
27
Excess of power: enforcement
Part 5
Rating and council tax
28
Rate relief on former agricultural premises etc.
29
Rate relief for food stores in rural settlements
30
Derating of automatic telling machine sites
31
Derating of certain buildings used in connection with agricultural operations
32
Power to combine lands and heritages situated in more than one valuation area
33
Council tax: discount for unoccupied dwellings
Part 6
Waste management
34
Integrated waste management plans
Part 7
Finance
35
Capital expenditure limits
36
Imposition of capital expenditure limits
37
Capital grants
38
Scottish Ministers' power to pay off loans made to local authorities
39
Provisions supplementary to sections 35 to 38
40
Power of local authorities to invest money
41
Establishment of local authority funds other than general fund: setting of council tax
Part 8
Miscellaneous
42
Paid time off for councillors not to be political donation
43
Remote participation in and calling of local authority meetings
44
Travel concessions
45
Power to charge for vacant places on school buses etc.
46
Power to provide funds for speed cameras etc.
47
Power to provide funds for private water supplies
48
Delegation of Strathclyde Passenger Transport Authority functions to officials
49
Parliamentary procedure for regulations about vehicles used as taxis and private hire cars
50
Suspension of requirement to advertise principal teacher posts
51
Arrangements and agreements with bodies corporate
52
Guidance on contractual matters
53
Qualification of and assistance for Accounts Commission auditors
54
Accounts Commission’s and auditor’s powers to obtain information from persons other than local authorities etc.
55
Auditor’s duty in relation to aspects of best value and community planning
56
Extension of Controller of Audit’s reporting functions to best value and community planning: amendment of section 102 of 1973 Act
Part 9
General
57
Power to modify enactments
58
Ancillary provision
59
Equal opportunities
60
Repeals and consequential amendments
61
Definitions
62
Short title and commencement

Local Government in Scotland Act 2003
2003 asp 1
An Act of the Scottish Parliament to provide anew about the way in which local authorities discharge their functions and about the local provision of certain public services; to give local authorities power to do things which they consider will advance well-being; to provide exemptions and reliefs from non-domestic rates in relation to certain lands and heritages; to confer power on the Scottish Ministers to combine certain lands and heritages for the purposes of assessing rateable value; to require local authorities to prepare, and endeavour to implement, a plan relating to the carrying out of their waste disposal and collection functions; to make new provision about the capital expenditure of those authorities and about the making of capital grants to them; to make some miscellaneous provisions connected with the functions of local authorities; and for connected purposes.
The Bill for this Act of the Scottish Parliament was passed by the Parliament on 8th January 2003 and received Royal Assent on 11th February 2003