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
(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.
F18(3)
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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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