Statutory Instruments
LOCAL GOVERNMENT, SCOTLAND
Made
11th February 1991
laid before Parliament
25th February 1991
Coming into force
1st April 1991
The Secretary of State, in exercise of the powers conferred upon him by sections 7, 9(3) and 23(1) of the Local Government, Planning and Land Act 1980(1) and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, hereby makes the following Regulations:
1.-(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Local Government (Direct Labour Organisations) (Competition) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 1991 and shall come into force on 1st April 1991.
(2) These Regulations shall extend only to Scotland.
(3) In these Regulations "the principal Regulations" means the Local Government (Direct Labour Organisations) (Competition) (Scotland) Regulations 1990(2).
2. In regulations 6(2) and 8(3) of the principal Regulations for the figure "70%" there shall be substituted the figure "40%"
Allan Stewart
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Scottish Office
St Andrew's House,
Edinburgh
11th February 1991
(This note is not part of the Regulations)
These Regulations amend the Local Government (Direct Labour Organisations) (Competition) (Scotland) Regulations 1990 ("the principal Regulations") in their application to highway work.
Regulations 6 and 8 of the principal Regulations apply to general highway works carried out in a financial year, either under a works contract or as functional work, and worth £25,000 or less, but only if the value of that contract or functional work and of all similar work worth £25,000 or less previously contracted for or carried out by the authority in the same financial year exceeds a specified percentage of the total value of such work contracted for or carried out in the preceding financial year.
These Regulations reduce the specified percentage from 70% to 40%.
1980 c. 65; section 7(1) and (3) was amended by, and section 7(1A) and (1B) was inserted by, the Local Government Act 1988 (c. 9), Schedule, paragraph 2.
S.I. 1990/1782.