Article 3 Designation of Public Bodies

(1)

Any person of a description specified in paragraph (2) below, being, in each case, a description of persons appearing to Scottish Ministers to be exercising functions of a public nature, shall be a public body for the purposes of the Local Authorities (Goods and Services) Act 1970 in its application to Scotland.

(2)

The descriptions of persons referred to in paragraph (1) are–

(a)

a National Health Service Trust;

(b)

a person with whom there is in force an agreement which has been made in pursuance of section 19 of the Enterprise and New Towns (Scotland) Act 1990^f1 by Scottish Enterprise or Highlands and Islands Enterprise for the discharge by that person of any of the functions of Scottish Enterprise or, as the case may be, Highlands and Islands Enterprise;

(c)

a company–

(i)

established wholly or mainly for the purpose of providing services to a local authority;

(ii)

of which not less than 25% nor more than 49% of the issued share capital is held by that local authority; and

(iii)

which has entered into a contractual arrangement with that local authority for the supply of goods and services (or either of them) to that local authority.

Annotations

Footnotes

f1: 1990 c. 35.