# Local Government Act 1999, Section 1: Best value authorities.

Extent: E+W

(1) For the purposes of this Part each of these is a best value authority—
(a) an English local authority;
(b) a National Park authority for a National Park in England;
(c) the Broads Authority;
(d) the Common Council of the City of London in its capacity as a police authority;
(e) a fire and rescue authority in England constituted by a scheme under section 2 of the Fire and Rescue Services Act 2004 or a scheme to which section 4 of that Act applies, and a metropolitan county fire and civil defence authority;
(f) the London Fire Commissioner;
(g) an authority established under section 10 of the Local Government Act 1985 (waste disposal authorities);
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(h) an Integrated Transport Authority for an integrated transport area in England;
(ha) an economic prosperity board established under section 88 of the Local Democracy, Economic Development and Construction Act 2009;
(hb) a combined authority established under section 103 of that Act;
(hc) a sub-national transport body established under section 102E of the Local Transport Act 2008;
(hd) a combined county authority established under section 9(1) of the Levelling-up and Regeneration Act 2023;
(i) Transport for London;
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(2) In this section, “English local authority” means
(a) a county council in England, a district council or a London borough council;
(b) the Council of the Isles of Scilly;
(c) the Common Council of the City of London in its capacity as a local authority;
(d) the Greater London Authority so far as it exercises its functions through the Mayor.
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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1999/27/section/1 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-act-1999/section-1
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