Explanatory note

The Local Authorities (Goods and Services) Act 1970 enables local authorities to supply goods and services (subject to certain restrictions) to other local authorities and to public bodies. “Public body” means a person or description of persons appearing to the Secretary of State to be exercising functions of a public nature. This order, which extends to England and Wales, makes the Crown Agents for Oversea Governments and Administrations a public body for the purposes of the Act. The order restricts the agreements which the Crown Agents may enter into with a local authority for the purposes of the 1970 Act to agreements for the provision by the authority to the Agents of administrative, professional or technical services.