{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-best-value-performance-indicators-and-performance-standards-amendment-england-order-2003/article-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-best-value-performance-indicators-and-performance-standards-amendment-england-order-2003/article-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2003/864",
  "legislation_title": "The Local Government (Best Value) Performance Indicators and Performance Standards (Amendment) (England) Order 2003",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-best-value-performance-indicators-and-performance-standards-amendment-england-order-2003",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Government (Best Value) Performance Indicators and Performance Standards Order 2003",
  "text": "(1) The Local Government (Best Value) Performance Indicators and Performance Standards Order 2003 is amended as follows.\n(2) For article 10, substitute—\n“Performance standards for waste authorities\n10. (1) A waste authority (other than a waste authority to which paragraph (3) or (4) applies) which achieved, in the financial year beginning with 1st April 1998—\n(a) a recycling and composting rate specified in column (1) of Part I of Schedule 8 to this Order shall, in relation to indicators 1 and 2 in Schedule 7 (taken together) meet for the financial year beginning with 1st April 2003 the standard specified in the corresponding entry in column (2) of that Part;\n(b) a recycling and composting rate specified in column (1) of Part 2 of that Schedule shall, in relation to indicators 1 and 2 in Schedule 7 (taken together) meet for the financial year beginning with 1st April 2005 the standard specified in the corresponding entry in column (2) of that Part.\n(2) For the purposes of paragraph (1), the recycling and composting rate for an authority is that which is set out for the waste authority in the document published by the DETR entitled “Guidance on Municipal Waste Management Strategies”; (published on 1st March 2001); and a waste authority which is stated in that document to have failed to supply to the DETR adequate details of the recycling and composting rates is treated for the purposes of—\n(a) paragraph (1)(a) of this article and Part I of Schedule 8 to this Order as having a recycling and composting rate of 16% or more; and\n(b) paragraph (1)(b) of this article and Part II of that Schedule as having a recycling and composting rate of 19% or more.\n(3) Those waste authorities specified in column 1 of Part 1 of Schedule 8A to this Order shall, in relation to indicators 1 and 2 in Schedule 7 (taken together) meet for the financial year beginning with 1st April 2003 the standard specified in the corresponding entry in column (2) of that Part.\n(4) Those waste authorities specified in column 1 of Part 2 of Schedule 8A to this Order shall, in relation to indicators 1 and 2 in Schedule 7 (taken together) meet for the financial year beginning with 1st April 2005 the standard specified in the corresponding entry in column (2) of that Part.\n(5) For the purposes of this article “waste authority” means a waste collection authority or a waste disposal authority.”\n(3) After Schedule 8, insert—\n“SCHEDULE 8A\nWASTE PERFORMANCE STANDARDS FOR POOLED AUTHORITIES\nArticle 10\nPart 1\nFinancial Year 2003/2004\nColumn (1)\nColumn (2)\nName of Waste Authority\nAuthority’s 2003/2004 standard (percentage of the total tonnage of household waste arisings to be sent by the authority for recycling or composting)\nSomerset\nMendip District Council\n14%\nSedgemoor District Council\n13%\nSouth Somerset District Council\n15%\nTaunton Dean Borough Council\n18%\nWest Somerset District Council\n14%\nOxfordshire\nOxfordshire County Council\n22%\nOxford City Council\n12%\nSouth Oxfordshire District Council\n22%\nWest Oxfordshire District Council\n12%\nVale of White Horse District Council\n15%\nNottinghamshire\nNottinghamshire County Council\n17%\nAshfield District Council\n8%\nBassetlaw Borough Council\n8%\nBroxtowe Borough Council\n8%\nMansfield District Council\n8%\nNewark & Sherwood District Council\n8%\nNottingham City Council\n8%\nWiltshire\nKennet District Council\n11%\nSalisbury District Council\n16%\nWest Wiltshire District Council\n10%\nMerseyside\nMerseyside Waste Disposal Authority\n12%\nKnowsley Metropolitan Borough Council\n8%\nLiverpool City Council\n8%\nSefton Metropolitan Borough Council\n14%\nSt Helens Metropolitan Borough Council\n8%\nWirral Metropolitan Borough Council\n12%\nManchester\nGreater Manchester Waste Disposal Authority\n11.5%\nBolton Metropolitan Borough Council\n8%\nBury Metropolitan Borough Council\n8%\nManchester City Council\n7%\nOldham Metropolitan Borough Council\n8%\nRochdale Metropolitan Borough Council\n7%\nCity of Salford Metropolitan Borough Council\n8%\nStockport Metropolitan Borough Council\n20%\nTameside Metropolitan Borough Council\n8%\nTrafford Metropolitan Borough Council\n8%\nPart 2\nFinancial Year 2005/2006\nColumn (1)\nColumn (2)\nName of Waste Authority\nAuthority’s 2005/2006 standard (percentage of the total tonnage of household waste arisings to be sent by the authority for recycling or composting)\nSomerset\nMendip District Council\n25%\nSedgemoor District Council\n19%\nSouth Somerset District Council\n28%\nTaunton Dean Borough Council\n30%\nWest Somerset District Council\n25%\nOxfordshire\nOxford City Council\n18%\nSouth Oxfordshire District Council\n29%\nVale of White Horse District Council\n29%\nWiltshire\nWiltshire County Council\n33%\nKennet District Council\n25%\nSalisbury District Council\n31%\nMerseyside\nMerseyside Waste Disposal Authority\n22%\nKnowsley Metropolitan Borough Council\n15%\nLiverpool City Council\n15%\nSefton Metropolitan Borough Council\n21%\nSt Helens Metropolitan Borough Council\n15%\nWirral Metropolitan Borough Council\n18%\n”",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 2003/530. That Order applies to Wales, but the best value authorities affected by this Order are all in England."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "“Municipal Waste Management Strategies” was published by the DETR on 1st March 2001. The document is available at www.defra.gov.uk/environment/waste/management/guidance/mwms/01.htm."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2003/864/article/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T06:27:10.355354+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."
}