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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-authorities-direct-labour-organisations-competition-insolvency-amendment-wales-regulations-1998/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1998/537",
  "legislation_title": "The Local Authorities (Direct Labour Organisations) (Competition) (Insolvency) (Amendment) (Wales) Regulations 1998",
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  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nRegulation 2 of these Regulations amends the Local Authorities (Direct Labour Organisations) (Competition) (Wales) Regulations 1997 so that local authorities in Wales are exempt from the competitive tendering requirements of Part III of the Local Government, Planning and Land Act 1980 in respect of certain functional work. The functional work is that which consists of a job the whole or part of which the authority is undertaking because a contractor has been, but, by reason of falling within regulation 10B(3) as inserted by these Regulations, is no longer undertaking for that authority, and the authority will be undertaking the work for no more than 12 months from the day on which the contractor ceased to undertake the work in question.",
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  "version": "current",
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  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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