Regulation 12 Interpretation etc.

Changes not yet applied. Later legislation changes this provision in ways not yet written into the text below:

reg.12(1)(c)(i)(ii) substituted by Local Government Changes for England and Local Government Act 1988 (Competition) 1995 reg.4(1)
reg. 12(1) renumbered (as reg.12) by Local Government Changes for England (Housing Management) 1997 reg.2(a)
reg.12(d) substituted by Local Government Changes for England (Housing Management) 1997 reg.2(b)
reg.12(e) added by Local Government Changes for England (Housing Management) 1997 reg.2(c)
reg. 12(1)(c) words substituted by Local Government Changes for England (Miscellaneous Provision) 1996 reg. 3(1)

(1)

In this Part—

(a)

“the Act” means the Local Government Act 1988;

(b)

expressions used which are also used in the Act have the meanings assigned by section 3 of the Act;

(c)

“excepted housing work” means work falling within the defined activity in section 2(2)(h) (housing management) of the Act^f1, where either—

(i)

the gross cost of that activity as estimated by the transferor authority if carried out by that authority in the financial year immediately preceding the reorganisation date would not exceed £500,000; and by virtue of an order, or of regulations under section 19 of the 1992 Act, 1,000 dwellings or more are transferred to the successor authority; or

(ii)

the total number of dwellings managed by the successor authority on the reorganisation date is 15,000 or more;

(d)

“the reorganisation period” means the period beginning on the order date and ending the expiry of—

(i)

2 years beginning on the reorganisation date in relation to excepted housing work, and

(ii)

18 months beginning on that date in relation to other work.

Annotations

Footnotes

f1: Paragraph (h) of section 2(2) is added by S.I. 1994/1671.