The Local Government Act 1988 (Competition) (Legal and Construction etc. Services) (Police Authorities) Regulations 1995 No. 3302


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1995 No. 3302

LOCAL GOVERNMENT, ENGLAND AND WALES

The Local Government Act 1988 (Competition) (Legal and Construction etc. Services) (Police Authorities) Regulations 1995

Made

14th December 1995

Laid before Parliament

5th January 1996

Coming into force

26th January 1996

The Secretary of State for the Environment as respects England, and the Secretary of State for Wales as respects Wales, in exercise of the powers conferred on them by sections 6(3) and 15(6) of the Local Government Act 1988(1), and of all other powers enabling them in that behalf, hereby make the following Regulations:

Citation, commencement and interpretation

1.-(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Local Government Act 1988 (Competition) (Legal and Construction etc. Services) (Police Authorities) Regulations 1995 and shall come into force on 26th January 1996.

(2) In these Regulations,

Application of section 6

2.-(1) Section 6 of the Act shall apply, in relation to a police authority, to the specified proportion of work of any description falling within each of-

(a)the defined activity mentioned in section 2(2)(j)(3) of the Act ("legal services") and

(b)the defined activity mentioned in section 2(2)(k)(4) of the Act ("construction and property services"),

other than work carried out, under a works contract in relation to which that authority were a bidding authority to which section 4 of the Act (works contracts) applies, if it is proposed to be carried out after the date specified in relation to each police authority-

(i)in Schedule 1 in relation to legal services and

(ii)in Schedule 2 in relation to construction and property services.

(2) In this regulation, "the specified proportion"in relation to each of the defined activities mentioned in paragraph (1) means an amount equal to the product of the formula specified in relation to that activity in Schedule 3.

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State

Paul Beresford

Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State,

Department of the Environment

11th December 1995

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Wales

Gwilym Jones

Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Welsh Office

14th December 1995

Regulation 2(1)

SCHEDULE 1LEGAL SERVICES

Police authority Date from which section 6 applies

Greater Manchester

Merseyside

South Yorkshire

West Midlands

West Yorkshire

City of London

} 1 April 1997

Cambridgeshire

Cheshire

Cumbria

Gloucestershire

Hertfordshire

Kent

Lancashire

Lincolnshire

Norfolk

Northamptonshire

Northumbria

Suffolk

Surrey

Warwickshire

} 1 October 1997

Avon and Somerset

Cleveland

Humberside

North Yorkshire

Dyfed-Powys

Gwent

North Wales

South Wales

} 1 April 1998

Bedfordshire

Derbyshire

Devon and Cornwall

Dorset

Durham

Essex

Hampshire

Leicestershire

Nottinghamshire

Staffordshire

Sussex

Thames Valley

West Mercia

Wiltshire

} 1 April 1999

Regulation 2(1)

SCHEDULE 2CONSTRUCTION AND PROPERTY SERVICES

Police authority Date from which section 6 applies

Greater Manchester

Merseyside

South Yorkshire

West Midlands

West Yorkshire

City of London

Cambridgeshire

Cheshire

Cumbria

Gloucestershire

Hertfordshire

Kent

Lancashire

Lincolnshire

Norfolk

Northamptonshire

Northumbria

Suffolk

Surrey

Warwickshire

} 1 October 1997

Avon and Somerset

Cleveland

Humberside

North Yorkshire

Dyfed-Powys

Gwent

North Wales

South Wales

} 1 April 1998

Bedfordshire

Derbyshire

Devon and Cornwall

Dorset

Durham

Essex

Hampshire

Leicestershire

Nottinghamshire

Staffordshire

Sussex

Thames Valley

West Mercia

Wiltshire

} 1 April 1999

Regulation 2(2)

SCHEDULE 3MEANING OF "SPECIFIED PROPORTION"

Formula specified in relation to legal services

where

  • T = an amount equal to the cost to a police authority of the specified work;

  • A = an amount equal to 55 per cent of T or £300,000, whichever is greater;

  • B = for the period ending on 31st March 1999 or five years after work was awarded,, whichever is shorter,, an amount equal to the cost of specified work which is being carried out by a police authority following voluntary competitive tendering; and

  • C = an amount equal to the cost of specified work carried out by a defined authority in connection with functional work falling within any other defined activity where that functional work is being carried out by a defined authority in accordance with the provisions of the Act.

Formula specified in relation to construction and property services

where

  • T = an amount equal to the cost to a police authority of the specified work;

  • A = an amount equal to 35 per cent of T or £450,000,, whichever is greater;

  • B = for the period ending on 31st March 1999 or five years after work was awarded,, whichever is shorter,, an amount equal to the cost of specified work which is being carried out by a police authority following voluntary competitive tendering;

  • C = an amount equal to the cost of specified work carried out by a defined authority in connection with functional work falling within any other defined activity where that functional work is being carried out by a defined authority in accordance with the provisions of the Act; and

  • D = for the allowable period,, an amount equal to the cost of work falling within paragraphs 12(3)(d) and (e) of Schedule 1 to the Act(5), where that work has been started by a defined authority before the commencement of the allowable period.

Interpretation

3. In this Schedule-

(a)"the allowable period" means the period commencing on the date when section 6 of the Act first applies to the police authority in question in respect of specified work and ending -

(i)as respects work falling within paragraph 12(3)(d) of Schedule 1 to the Act, on the date when that work is completed;

(ii)as respects work falling within paragraph 12(3)(e) of Schedule 1 to the Act, on the date when the document verifying completion of the work is issued;

(b)"the cost" means the estimated total annual cost including overheads;

(c)"the specified work" means work within the defined activity mentioned in section 2(2)(j) or, as the case may be, section 2(2)(k) of the Act, and

(d)"voluntary competitive tendering" means the awarding of work before 1st April 1994 following a competitive process in the course of which at least three persons who are not defined authorities were invited to tender for the work.

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations make provision under Part I (competition) of the Local Government Act 1988 ("the Act") in respect of the defined activities of legal services and construction and property services.

Regulation 2 applies section 6 of the Act to a specified proportion (determined in accordance with Schedule 3) of each activity of a police authority from the dates specified in Schedule 1 in relation to legal services and Schedule 2 in relation to construction and property services, so that such authorities are required, if they wish themselves to carry out work within such an activity on and after that date, to have first competed for such work.

(1)

1988 c. 9. Section 6(3) is amended by the Local Government Act 1992 (c. 19), Schedule 1 paragraph 12.

(2)

1964 c. 48. Section 3 is substituted by section 2 of the Police and Magistrates' Courts Act 1994 (c. 29).

(3)

Sub-paragraph (j) of section 2(2) is inserted by S.I. 1994/2884.

(4)

Sub-paragraph (k) of section 2(2) is inserted by S.I. 1994/2888.

(5)

Paragraphs 12(3)(d) and (e) were inserted by S.I. 1994/2888.


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