Statutory Instruments
1998 No. 2192

LOCAL GOVERNMENT, ENGLAND AND WALES
The Local Government Act 1988 (Competition) (Wales) Regulations 1998

Made
1st September 1998

Laid before Parliament
9th September 1998

Coming into force
30th September 1998

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

Citation and commencement

1.  These Regulations may be cited as the Local Government Act 1988 (Competition) (Wales) Regulations 1998 and shall come into force on 30th September 1998.

Amendments

2.  The Regulations specified in column (1) of the Schedule to these Regulations are amended to the extent indicated in column (2) of that Schedule.

Revocations

3.  In the Local Government Act 1988 (Competition) (Wales) Regulations 1997(2), regulations 2(2), 3(2), 4(1) and 5(2) are revoked.

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Wales

Jon Owen Jones
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Welsh Office
1st September 1998

Regulation 2

THE SCHEDULERegulations amended

(1)
(2)

Title of Regulations
Extent of amendment

The Local Government Act 1988 (Competition) (Construction and Property Services) (Wales) Regulations 1997(3)
In regulation 3 (application of section 6) for “1st October 1999” substitute “1st October 2000”.

The Local Government Act 1988 (Competition) (Financial Services) (Wales) Regulations 1997(4)
In regulation 3 (application of section 6) for “1st October 1999” substitute “1st October 2000”.

The Local Government Act 1988 (Competition) (Housing Management) (Wales) Regulations 1997(5)
In paragraph (1) of regulation 3 (application of section 6) for “1st October 1999” substitute “1st October 2000”.

The Local Government Act 1988 (Competition) (Information Technology Services) (Wales) Regulations 1997(6)
In regulation 3 (application of section 6) for “1st October 1999” substitute “1st October 2000”.

The Local Government Act 1988 (Competition) (Legal Services) (Wales) Regulations 1997(7)
In regulation 3 (application of section 6) for “1st October 1999” substitute “1st October 2000”.

The Local Government Act 1988 (Competition) (Personnel Services) (Wales) Regulations 1997(8)
In regulation 3 (application of section 6) for “1st October 1999” substitute “1st October 2000”.

The Local Government Act 1988 (Competition) (Supervision of Parking, Management of Vehicles and Security Work) (Wales) Regulations 1997(9)
In regulation 2 (application of section 6) in paragraph (a) for “1st April 1999” substitute “1st April 2000” and in paragraph (b) for “1st June 1999” substitute “1st June 2000”.

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)
Regulation 2 of and the Schedule to these Regulations amend the Regulations specified in that Schedule (“the respective Regulations”) which were made under Part I of the Local Government Act 1988 (Competition) in respect of the defined activities of construction and property services (S.I. 1997/127), financial services (S.I. 1997/130), housing management services (S.I. 1997/935), legal services (S.I. 1997/126), information technology services (S.I. 1997/125), personnel services (S.I. 1997/129) and supervision of parking, management of vehicles and security work (S.I. 1997/128). Those respective Regulations (and in consequence the present Regulations) apply only to certain defined authorities in Wales.
In the case of all services, in regulation 3 (but in the case of supervision of parking, management of vehicles and security work in regulation 2) of the respective Regulations a new date is specified for the application of section 6 (functional work: restrictions) of that Act of 1988. The respective new dates are:
(a)1st April 2000 (instead of 1st April 1999) in relation to management of vehicles;
(b)1st June 2000 (instead of 1st June 1999) in relation to security work and supervision of parking;
(c)1st October 2000 (instead of 1st October 1999) in relation to all the other services.
Regulation 3 makes consequential revocations in S.I. 1997/1699.


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

(2)
S.I. 1997/1699 amended by S.I. 1997/2649.

(3)
S.I. 1997/127 to which there is a relevant amendment by S.I. 1997/1699.

(4)
S.I. 1997/130 to which there is a relevant amendment by S.I. 1997/1699.

(5)
S.I. 1997/935 to which there is a relevant amendment by S.I. 1997/1699.

(6)
S.I. 1997/125 to which there are amendments not relevant to these Regulations.

(7)
S.I. 1997/126 to which there is a relevant amendment by S.I. 1997/1699.

(8)
S.I. 1997/129 to which there are amendments not relevant to these Regulations.

(9)
S.I. 1997/128 to which there is a relevant amendment by S.I. 1997/1699.