The Local Government Act 1988 (Defined Activities) (Exemption) (Derwentside and Wyre Forest District Councils) Order 1998

Statutory Instruments

1998 No. 2050

LOCAL GOVERNMENT, ENGLAND AND WALES

The Local Government Act 1988 (Defined Activities) (Exemption) (Derwentside and Wyre Forest District Councils) Order 1998

Made

19th August 1998

Laid before Parliament

27th August 1998

Coming into force

17th September 1998

The Secretary of State, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by sections 2(9) and 15(5) of the Local Government Act 1988(1), and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, hereby makes the following Order:

Citation and commencement

1.  This Order may be cited as the Local Government Act 1988 (Defined Activities) (Exemption) (Derwentside and Wyre Forest District Councils) Order 1998 and shall come into force on 17th September 1998.

Exemptions of management of sports and leisure facilities

2.—(1) The management of sports and leisure facilities(2) by the council of the district of Derwentside shall not be treated as a defined activity so long as it is carried out within that district during the period beginning with 17th September 1998 and ending on 31st March 1999.

(2) The management of sports and leisure facilities by the council of the district of Wyre Forest shall not be treated as a defined activity so long as it is carried out within that district during the period beginning with 1st October 1998 and ending on 31st March 2000.

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State

Mick Raynsford

Parliamentary Under Secretary of State,

Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions

19th August 1998

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order)

Under Part I of the Local Government Act 1988 (competition), work falling within certain defined activities may be carried out by local authorities only if particular conditions are fulfilled.

Article 2 of this Order exempts from the requirements of Part I the sports and leisure management work of Derwentside District Council and Wyre Forest District Council, so long as that work is carried out within those districts during the periods mentioned in paragraphs (1) and (2) of that article respectively.

(1)

1988 c. 9.

(2)

See section 2(2)(ee) of, and paragraph 8 of Schedule 1 to, the Local Government Act 1988. Subsection (2)(ee) and paragraph 8 were inserted by the Local Government Act 1988 (Competition in Sports and Leisure Facilities) Order 1989 (S.I. 1989 No. 2488).