Statutory Instruments
1997 No. 809

LOCAL GOVERNMENT, ENGLAND AND WALES
The Local Authorities (Goods and Services) (Public Bodies) (Greater London Enterprise Limited) Order 1997

Made
12th March 1997

Laid before Parliament
14th March 1997

Coming into force
4th April 1997

The Secretary of State for the Environment and the Secretary of State for Wales, acting jointly in relation to England and Wales in exercise of the powers conferred by section 1(5) of the Local Authorities (Goods and Services) Act 1970(1), hereby make the following Order:

Citation and commencement

1.  This Order may be cited as the Local Authorities (Goods and Services) (Public Bodies) (Greater London Enterprise Limited) Order 1997 and shall come into force on 4th April 1997.

Designation of public body

2.  Greater London Enterprise Limited, being a person appearing to the Secretary of State to be exercising functions of a public nature, shall be a public body for the purposes of the Local Authorities (Goods and Services) Act 1970.

Restrictions on agreements which may be entered into

3.  Agreements which may be entered into by Greater London Enterprises Limited (“GLE”) shall be restricted to agreements with a local authority for the provision of administrative, professional or technical services, by that authority to GLE, in connection with GLE’s regeneration or economic development activities in England and Wales.

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State.

Paul Beresford
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State,
Department of the Environment
12th March 1997

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Wales

Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Welsh Office
Gwilym Jones
12th March 1997

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order)
Article 2 of this Order designates Greater London Enterprise Limited as a public body under the Local Authorities (Goods and Services) Act 1970.
The effect of this designation is to allow a local authority to provide services to the designated body. By virtue of article 3, it may only do so provided that the provision is in connection GLE’s regeneration or economic development activities in England and Wales.

(1)
1970 c. 39. The power conferred on the Minister of Housing and Local Government is exercisable by the Secretary of State; S.I. 1970/1681.