Article 1 Citation, commencement and interpretationI1

This Order may be cited as the Local Government (Best Value) Performance Indicators and Performance Standards Order 2003 and shall come into force on 1st April 2003.

In this Order—

• “the Act” means the Local Government Act 1999;

• “DETR” means the Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions;

• “ODPM” means the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister;

• “fire authority” means—

  1. (a)

     a fire authority constituted by a combination scheme;

  2. (b)

     a metropolitan county fire and civil defence authority;

  3. (c)

     the London Fire and Emergency Planning Authority;

  4. (d)

     The Council of the Isles of Scilly in its capacity as a fire authority; or

  5. (e)

     a county council acting as the fire authority for its area under the provisions of section 4 of the Fire Services Act 1947^f1;

• “highway authority” has the meaning given in section 1(2) and (3) of the Highways Act 1980^f2;

• “unitary council” means a district council, a county council or a London borough council which is the sole principal council for its local government area;

• “principal council” means a council elected for a principal area as defined in section 270 of the Local Government Act 1972^f3; and

• “waste collection authority” has the same meaning as in section 30(3) of the Environmental Protection Act 1990^f4.

In this Order a reference to a numbered indicator or standard in a particular Schedule is to the indicator or standard so numbered in column 1 of that Schedule and which is described in column 2 of that Schedule.