Section 9 Interpretation and application of Part III.C1

“local authority” means—

• a county, district or London borough council,

• the Common Council of the City of London,

• F1a police and crime commissioner,

• the Mayor's Office for Policing and Crime

• F2. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

• F3. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

• a joint authority established by Part IV of the M1Local Government Act 1985,

• F4a combined authority established under section 103 of the Local Democracy, Economic Development and Construction Act 2009,

• F5a combined county authority established under section 9(1) of the Levelling-up and Regeneration Act 2023,

• F6a fire and rescue authority created by an order under section 4A of the Fire and Rescue Services Act 2004,

• F7the London Fire Commissioner,

• the Council of the Isles of Scilly, or

• any other authority prescribed for the purposes of this Part by regulations made by the Secretary of State,

and includes any authority, board or committee which discharges functions which would otherwise fall to be discharged by two or more such authorities,

references to a local authority’s interest as mortgagee of land include any interest of the authority in the land or in the debt secured, and

references to the disposal of such an interest are to any transfer of the interest otherwise than by operation of law;