PART IILocal Authority Functions
6Effect of specific power or duty to incur expenditure at one tier of local government on exercise of general such power at different tier
In section 83 of the M11973 Act (which provides a local authority with a general power to incur certain expenditure which it is not explicitly empowered to incur)—
(a)
in subsection (2), after the word "that", where it occurs for the first time, there shall be inserted the words " , subject to subsection (3A) below, "; and
(b)
“(3A)
Where one of any two local authorities is a regional council and the other a district council, neither authority shall under the foregoing provisions of this section—
(a)
incur; or
(b)
unless invited to do so by the other authority, contribute towards defraying,
expenditure which the other authority are, either unconditionally or subject to any limitation or to the satisfaction of any condition, expressly authorised (or required) to incur by or by virtue of any enactment other than this section.”