(1) This Order may be cited as the Local Authorities (Goods and Services) (Public Bodies) (England) Order 2001 and shall come into force on 1st March 2001.
(2) This Order extends to England only.
(3) In this Order “the 1970 Act” means the Local Authorities (Goods and Services) Act 1970.
Specified date: 1 March 2001: see para (1) above.
For the purposes of section 1 (Supply of goods and services by local authorities) of the 1970 Act, in its application to local authorities in England, a person of one of the descriptions specified in column (1) of the Schedule to this Order, being descriptions of persons appearing to the Secretary of State to be exercising functions of a public nature, shall be a public body.
Specified date: 1 March 2001: see art 1(1).
Where, in relation to the description specified in column (1) of the Schedule, a requirement is specified in column (2) (“a related requirement”), the agreements which a person of that description may enter into under section 1(1) of the 1970 Act by virtue of this Order shall be restricted to those which satisfy the related requirement.
Specified date: 1 March 2001: see art 1(1).
Estelle Morris
Minister of State,
Department for Education and Employment
30th January 2001
| (1) | (2) | ||
| Description of Persons | Related Requirement | ||
| 1 A person with whom a local education authority has entered into a contract or other arrangement for the performance of functions on the authority's behalf pursuant to a direction made by the Secretary of State under section 497A(4) of the Education Act 1996 | The agreement is made in connection with the performance on an authority's behalf of those functions set out in the contract or other arrangement. | ||
| 2 The School Development Support Agency | |||
| 3 A City Technology College, City College for the Technology of the Arts or City Academy which has entered into an agreement with the Secretary of State pursuant to section 482 of the Education Act 1996 | |||
Specified date: 1 March 2001: see art 1(1).
Article 2 of this Order designates as public bodies for the purposes of the Local Authorities (Goods and Services) Act 1970 (“the 1970 Act”) persons of the description specified in column (1) of the Schedule to the Order. The effect of designation is to allow a local authority in England to provide goods and services to a designated body.
Article 3 limits the agreements that English local authorities may make by virtue of this Order with persons who contract with a local education authority to carry out certain local education authority functions in consequence of a direction made by the Secretary of State under section 497A of the Education Act 1996. Agreements made by local authorities with such bodies are limited to the type of agreement set out in column (2) of the Schedule.
