Explanatory note

These Regulations amend regulation 12 of the Local Government Changes for England (Direct Labour and Service Organisations) Regulations 1994 (“the principal Regulations”) in respect of the defined activity of housing management, carried out by defined authorities in England, and make a consequential amendment to regulation 3 of the Local Government Act 1988 (Competition) (Housing Management) (England) Regulations 1994 (“the competition Regulations”).

The effect of the amendments to regulation 12 of the principal Regulations is to allow a defined authority which is subject to a boundary or structural change (changes resulting from the implementation of recommendations of the Local Government Commission for England) to postpone compliance with the requirements of the competition Regulations as regards the defined activity of housing management. The competition Regulations will have effect at the end of a period, known as the reorganisation period, which varies according to the type of housing management activity that is carried out (new paragraph (e) of regulation 12).

The consequential amendment to regulation 3 of the competition Regulations secures that that regulation (which specifies the proportion of housing management activity that is to be subject to competition) is subject to the special provisions of the principal Regulations in relation to housing authorities which are affected by structural change.