Statutory Instruments
1995 No. 517 (S.35)

LOCAL GOVERNMENT, SCOTLAND
The Local Government Act 1988 (Defined Activities) (Exemption of Development Corporations) (Scotland) Order 1995

Made
28th February 1995

Laid before Parliament
10th March 1995

Coming into force
31st March 1995

The Secretary of State, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by sections 2(9) and 15(5) of the Local Government Act 1988(1) and all other powers enabling him in that behalf, hereby makes the following Order:

Citation and commencement

1.  This Order may be cited as the Local Government Act 1988 (Defined Activities) (Exemption of Development Corporations) (Scotland) Order 1995 and shall come into force on 31st March 1995.

Exemption in respect of maintenance of ground

2.  Maintenance of ground (within the meaning of section 2(2)(f) of the Local Government Act 1988) by either East Kilbride Development Corporation or Glenrothes Development Corporation shall not be treated as a defined activity of that authority so long as it is carried out in the area of that authority before 31st December 1995.

3.  Maintenance of ground (within the meaning of section 2(2)(f) of the Local Government Act 1988) by either Cumbernauld Development Corporation or Irvine Development Corporation shall not be treated as a defined activity of that authority so long as it is carried out in the area of that authority before 31st December 1996.

George Kynoch
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Scottish Office
St Andrew’s House,
Edinburgh
28th February 1995

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order)
Under Part I of the Local Government Act 1988 (competition), work falling within certain defined activities may be carried out by authorities such as development corporations only if particular conditions relating to competitive tendering are fulfilled.
This Order exempts from the requirements of Part I ground maintenance by four development corporations in Scotland so long as it is undertaken in the respective areas of those authorities in the period prior to their wind-up. A similar exemption was made in the case of Livingston Development Corporation by S.I. 1994/3084.

(1)
1988 c. 9; section 15(5) was amended by the Local Government etc. (Scotland) Act 1994 (c. 39), Schedule 13, paragraph 156(4). See section 1(1) for the meaning of “defined authority”.