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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-best-value-performance-plans-and-reviews-order-1999/article-4",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1999/3251",
  "legislation_title": "The Local Government (Best Value) Performance Plans and Reviews Order 1999",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-best-value-performance-plans-and-reviews-order-1999",
  "path": "article/4",
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  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Content of best value performance plans for the financial year 2001 and each financial year thereafter",
  "text": "(1) Best value authorities must include in their best value performance plan for the financial year 2001 and each financial year thereafter, all the matters specified in sub-paragraphs (a) to (e) of article 3 of this Order and in paragraph (2) below.\n(2) The matters referred to in paragraph (1) above are–\n(a) a summary of the authority’s assessment of its performance in the previous financial year with regard to best value performance indicators, where applicable;\n(b) a comparison of that performance with the authority’s performance in previous financial years;\n(c) a comparison of the authority’s performance as summarised in accordance with paragraph (a) above, with the performance of other best value authorities in previous financial years;\n(d) a summary of its assessment of its success in meeting any best value performance standard which applied at any time in the previous financial year;\n(e) a summary of its assessment of its progress towards meeting any best value performance standard which has been specified but which does not yet apply;\n(f) a summary of its assessment of its progress towards meeting any best value performance target;\n(g) a summary of any plan of action to be taken in the financial year to which the plan relates for the purposes of meeting a best value performance target;\n(h) a summary of the basis on which any best value performance target was set, and any plan of action was determined, in relation to a function reviewed under section 5 of the Act and articles 5 and 6 of this Order, in the previous financial year.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "rev",
      "affecting": "uksi/2003/662",
      "affecting_title": "The Local Government (Best Value) Performance Plans and Reviews (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2003"
    },
    {
      "type": "am",
      "affecting": "uksi/2002/305",
      "affecting_title": "The Local Government (Best Value) Performance Plans and Reviews Amendment and Specified Dates Order 2002"
    }
  ],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1999/3251/article/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:33:11.083458+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."
}