Regulation 5 Excluded activities

(1)

Subject to paragraph (2), there are specified for the purposes of section 34(1) of the Act the steps listed in Schedule 2 to these Regulations.

(2)

Nothing in paragraph (1) or Schedule 2 shall preclude an authority from—

(a)

carrying out or participating in estate agency work—

(i)

which consists solely of the publication of information about land; or

(ii)

in connection with the acquisition or disposal of land that adjoins land which the authority proposes to acquire or dispose of;

(b)

carrying out or participating in insurance broking in connection with policies relating to moveable property in any building or on any land of which the occupier is a tenant of the authority;

(c)

publishing a newspaper where the sole or main purpose of such publication is the promotion of the economic development of the authority’s area;

(d)

doing anything which is—

(i)

incidental to the provision by the authority of any training facility, the construction or maintenance of any building or the management of any land in which the authority has an interest; or

(ii)

connected with the promotion of tourism or the provision of information to the public;

(e)

doing anything on behalf of a Minister of the Crown or, in pursuance of the Local Authorities (Goods and Services) Act 1970^f1, on behalf of any public body within the meaning of section 1 of that Act.

Annotations

Footnotes

f1: 1970 c. 39.