{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-act-1988/schedule-1/paragraph-15",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-act-1988/schedule-1/paragraph-15.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1988/9",
  "legislation_title": "Local Government Act 1988",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-act-1988",
  "path": "schedule/1/paragraph/15",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "15",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) Provision of the following services (and only the following) falls within section 2(2)(n) above—\n(a) personnel advice to any of the following, namely —\n(i) a defined authority or its elected members;\n(ii) any committee or sub-committee of a defined authority, or any other group of persons which reports to such an authority, committee or sub-committee; and\n(iii) any officer or department of a defined authority;\n(b) personnel advice to any other person in relation to the discharge of any functions of a defined authority;\n(c) conducting organisational and method studies and work studies including, in particular, conducting management service reviews and preparing business plans;\n(d) human resource management including, in particular, recruitment, monitoring, assessment and appraisal;\n(e) personnel research;\n(f) developing and maintaining statistical and managerial information systems:\n(g) subject to sub-paragraph (2) below, training a defined authority’s employees including, in particular, arranging, monitoring and evaluating training and development programmes;\n(h) developing and maintaining employee relations policies, practices and procedures;\n(i) personnel work in connection with any of the following, namely\n(i) pay and other employee benefits including, in particular, superannuation benefits;\n(ii) terms and conditions of employment;\n(iii) health and safety policies and procedures;\n(iv) employee welfare policies and procedures including, in particular, occupational health services; and\n(v) redundancy arrangements and agreements;\n(j) procuring, monitoring or supervising any services which fall within paragraphs (a) to (i) above and are provided for a defined authority by any person.\n(2) The activities described in sub-paragraph (1)(g) above do not fall within section 2(2)(n) above where they relate to—\n(a) the ordinary supervision of trainees or other employees; or\n(b) the training of fire-fighting members of fire brigades.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Sch. 1 para. 15 inserted (20.7.1995) by S.I. 1995/1915, art. 4"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1988/9/schedule/1/paragraph/15",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:48:52.191471+00:00"
  },
  "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."
}