Part I Best Value

Best value authorities

1 Best value authorities.

(1)

For the purposes of this Part each of these is a best value authority—

F1(a)

an English local authority;

(b)

a National Park authority F2for a National Park in England;

(c)

the Broads Authority;

F3(d)

the Common Council of the City of London in its capacity as a police authority;

F4(e)

a fire and rescue authority F5in England constituted by a scheme under section 2 of the Fire and Rescue Services Act 2004 or a scheme to which section 4 of that Act applies, and a metropolitan county fire and civil defence authority;

F6(f)

the London Fire Commissioner;

F7(g)

an authority established under section 10 of the Local Government Act 1985 (waste disposal authorities);

F8(ga)

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F9(h)

an Integrated Transport Authority for an integrated transport area in England;

F10(ha)

an economic prosperity board established under section 88 of the Local Democracy, Economic Development and Construction Act 2009;

(hb)

a combined authority established under section 103 of that Act;

F11(hc)

a sub-national transport body established under section 102E of the Local Transport Act 2008;

F12(hd)

a combined county authority established under section 9(1) of the Levelling-up and Regeneration Act 2023;

(i)

Transport for London;

F13(j)

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F14(k)

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(2)

F15In this section, “English local authority” means

(a)

a county council F16in England, a district council F17or a London borough council;

(b)

the Council of the Isles of Scilly;

(c)

the Common Council of the City of London in its capacity as a local authority;

(d)

the Greater London Authority so far as it exercises its functions through the Mayor.

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F19(4)

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F20(5)

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F21(6)

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F22(7)

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F23(8)

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