Local Government Act 1988 (Defined Activities) (Exemption) (England) Order 1992

JurisdictionUK Non-devolved
CitationSI 1992/583
Year1992

1992 No. 583

LOCAL GOVERNMENT, ENGLAND AND WALES

The Local Government Act 1988 (Defined Activities) (Exemption) (England) Order 1992

Made 9th March 1992

Laid before Parliament 10th March 1992

Coming into force 6th April 1992

The Secretary of State for the Environment, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by sections 2(9) and 15(5) of the Local Government Act 19881and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, hereby makes the following Order:

S-1 Citation and commencement

Citation and commencement

1. This Order may be cited as the Local Government Act 1988 (Defined Activities) (Exemption) (England) Order 1992 and shall come into force on 6th April 1992.

S-2 Interpretation

Interpretation

2. In this Order—

“the Act” means the Local Government Act 1988;

“local authority” means a district council in England, a London borough council or the Common Council of the City of London in its capacity as local authority;

“housing action trust” means a housing action trust established before 6th April 1992 under Part III of the Housing Act 19882.

S-3 Exemption

Exemption

3.—(1) Work falling within any of the activities mentioned in section 2(2) of the Act3shall not be treated as a defined activity so long as each of the conditions mentioned in paragraph (2) is fulfilled.

(2) The conditions are—

(a)

(a) that the work is carried out by a local authority for a housing action trust;

(b)

(b) that the work is carried out in connection with property which has vested in the housing action trust and which was, immediately before so vesting, in the ownership of the local authority;

(c)

(c) that, immediately before the property so vested, work of the same description was carried out in connection with the property by the local authority as functional work;

(d)

(d) that, before the property so vested, the local authority had complied fully with the requirements of sections 6 and 7 of the Act in respect of that functional work;

(e)

(e) without prejudice to sub-paragraph (f) below, that either—

(i) the period during which the work was to be carried out as stated in the specification of the work required by section 7(3)(c) of the Act has not expired, or

(ii) if that period expires within three months after the property vested in the housing action trust, not more than three months have elapsed since the property so vested; and

(f)

(f) that not more than 12 months have elapsed since the property so vested.

Michael Heseltine

Secretary of...

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