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Regulation 5 Local government restructuring: efficiency authorities and efficiency information

Changes not yet applied. Later legislation changes this provision in ways not yet written into the text below:

(1)

This regulation applies to an efficiency authority in respect of a financial year if—

(a)

the authority—

(i)

is established by a relevant event at the beginning of the financial year, or

(ii)

has been established by a relevant event which occurred before that year; and

(b)

the baseline document does not identify the authority as an efficiency authority.

(2)

Subject to paragraph (4), the efficiency authority’s cumulative efficiency savings for a financial year are—

(a)

if the financial year is any year before the establishment year, the aggregate of the cumulative efficiency savings of each predecessor authority to the extent that those savings are relevant to the area of the efficiency authority; or

(b)

if the financial year is the establishment year or a year after that year, the aggregate of—

(i)

the amount mentioned in sub-paragraph (a),

(ii)

the authority’s aggregate savings for the financial year, and

(iii)

the authority’s aggregate savings for any year which is before the year mentioned in sub-paragraph (ii) and after the pre-establishment year.

(3)

Subject to paragraph (4), the efficiency authority’s estimated cumulative efficiency savings for a financial year are the authority’s cumulative efficiency savings for the year, but calculated using estimates prepared for the financial year by (as the case may be)—

(a)

the authority, or

(b)

each predecessor authority.

(4)

If required by the efficiency document any amount calculated under paragraph (2) or paragraph (3) must be adjusted to take account of inflation.

(5)

In this regulation—

  • “establishment year” means the year in which the efficiency authority is established;

  • “predecessor authority” means an authority which ceases to exist in consequence of the relevant event which established the efficiency authority;

  • “pre-establishment year” means the year before the establishment year; and

  • “relevant event” means the coming into force of any of the following—

    1. (a)

      an order under section 32 of the Police Act 1996 (power to alter police areas by order),

    2. (b)

      an order under section 2 of the 2004 Act (power to create combined fire and rescue authorities),

    3. (c)

      an order under section 7 (implementation of proposals by order) or section 10 (implementation of recommendations by order) of the Local Government and Public Involvement in Health Act 2007f1.

(6)

Paragraphs (4)(b) and (5) of regulation 4 apply for the purposes of paragraph (2) of this regulation as they apply for the purposes of paragraph (1) of that regulation.

Annotations

Footnotes

f1

2007 c.28.