Local Authorities (Goods and Services) Act 1970
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1970 c. 39 |
the supply by the authority to the F18body F18person of any goods or materials;the provision by the authority for the F18body F18person of any F20administrative, professional or technical services;the use by the F18body F18person of any F21vehicle, plant or apparatus belonging to F21property belonging to or facilities under the control of the authority and, without prejudice to paragraph (b) above, the placing at the disposal of the F18body F18person of the services of any person employed in connection with the F21vehicle or other property F21property or facility in question;F22the carrying out by the authority of works of maintenance in connection with land or buildings for the maintenance of which the body is responsible; (1A) A local authority shall not, in relation to any trading operation carried on by them, enter into an agreement under subsection (1) above if the likely result of doing so would be that the commercial services income accruing to the authority in any financial year under that and all other such agreements already entered into by the authority with such persons in relation to that operation would exceed the statutory limit.another local authority;a public authority or body; ora person who, in the circumstances set out in subsection (1L) below, enters into the contract in order to provide the local authority with goods or services,(1C) The restriction in subsection (1A) does not prevent a local authority from entering into an agreement where the likely result of doing so would be that the income referred to in that subsection will exceed the limit there referred to if the Scottish Ministers give prior consent to the authority doing so.is derived from agreements entered into for all or any of the purposes set out in subsection (1) above and is, in accordance with proper accounting practices, credited to a trading account kept by the authority for a trading operation;is derived from relevant dividends; oris derived from relevant profit sharing agreements; and the “statutory limit” for a trading operation is such amount as the Scottish Ministers may, by order, fix. (1E) For the purposes of subsection (1D) above—, goods or materials or provided with any service exceptfor the purposes of functions conferred on the authority otherwise than by this Act;for the purpose of enabling the authority to supply the property, goods or materials or, as the case may be, provide the service to another authority;in the case of the supply of goods or materials, where that supply is for the purpose of, or is incidental to the purpose of, enabling the authority to supply property or, as the case may be, provide a service; orin any other case, where the Scottish Ministers have consented to the supply or provision.(3) Any agreement made in pursuance of subsection (1) of this section may contain such terms as to payment or otherwise as the parties consider appropriate.(4) In this Act—in relation to England and Wales, the Minister of Housing and Local Government and the Secretary of State acting
- “relevant dividend” means a dividend paid by a body corporate which carries on operations which, if they were carried on by the authority to which the dividend is paid, would be relevant trading operations;
- “relevant profit sharing agreement” means an agreement between a local authority and a body corporate which carries on such operations in terms of which the body corporate undertakes to pay to the authority a proportion of any income which it derives from carrying out those operations.
- “Local authority”, in relation to England and Wales, means the council of F1
any county, county borough ,. . . , county district or London borough F3 the Greater London Authority F4the Broads Authority ,. . . , the Common Council of the City of London, the Council of the Isles of Scilly and any joint board, joint committee and combined authority F6 . . . and any joint authority established by Part IV of the Local Government Act 1985, F33 any economic prosperity board established under section 88 of the Local Democracy, Economic Development and Construction Act 2009, any combined authority established under section 103 of that Act, F40any fire and rescue authority created by an order under section 4A of the Fire and Rescue Services Act 2004, ... F34 , a Mayoral development corporation F8and F39the London Fire Commissioner F35and Transport for London and, in relation to Scotland, F9means a F10council constituted under section 2 of the Local Government etc. (Scotland) Act 1994 or any joint board or combination of those councils; -
F25“ public body” means any local authorityF11
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