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LOCAL GOVERNMENT, ENGLAND AND WALES
Made
8th March 1990
Laid before Parliament
9th March 1990
Coming into force
1st April 1990
The Secretary of State for the Environment, in exercise of the powers conferred upon him by section 137(4AA) and (5) of the Local Government Act 1972(1) and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, hereby makes the following Order:
1.-(1) This Order may be cited as the Local Authorities (Discretionary Expenditure Limits) Order 1990 and shall come into force on 1st April 1990.
2. For the purposes of section 137(4)(a) of the Local Government Act 1972(2), the sum appropriate to a local authority which is a constituent council(3) for the purposes of a scheme under section 48 of the Local Government Act 1985(4) (grants to voluntary organisations) is £475.
Signed by authority of the Secretary of State
David Hunt
Minister of State,
Department of the Environment
8th March 1990
(This note is not part of the Order)
The annual limit on the amount of expenditure which a local authority may incur for purposes not otherwise authorised is determined under section 137(4) of the Local Government Act 1972 by reference to the sum prescribed for an authority of that class in section 137(4AA). Different sums may be specified by order made by the Secretary of State.
This Order provides that the appropriate sum for a local authority which incurs expenditure or contributes to expenditure incurred pursuant to a scheme made under section 48 of the Local Government Act 1985 (which provides for the making of grants to voluntary organisations whose activities benefit Greater London or the area of a metropolitan county) is £475. The sum currently prescribed by section 137(4AA) of the 1972 Act for such authorities is £5.50p net
1972 c. 70; section 137(4AA) was inserted by the Local Governmentand Housing Act 1989 (c. 42), section 36(7).
Section 137(4) was amended by section 36(6) of the Local Governmentand Housing Act 1989.
See section 48(1) of the Local Government Act 1985 (c. 51).
See section 48(2) of the 1985 Act.
