UK Act of Parliament
2003
United Kingdom
Local Government Act 2003
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Schedules
Browse 138 other Schedules — structural / supplementary
(1) Subject to sub-paragraph (2), a local authority may borrow...
(1) Where a local authority meets any expenditure by borrowing,...
(1) A local authority may lend to a qualifying local...
In this Schedule, references to the fixed period, in relation...
In Part 5 of the Local Government Finance Act 1988...
(1) In Schedule 8 to the Local Government Finance Act...
The Local Government and Housing Act 1989 is amended as...
(1) Section 19 (contracts: exclusion of non-commercial considerations) is amended...
The Local Government Act 2000 is amended as follows.
(1) Section 3 (limits on power to promote well-being) is...
In section 9 (procedures for orders under section 5 or...
(1) Section 105 (orders and regulations) is amended as follows....
In section 67 (orders under Part 5), at the end...
In section 70 (requirements for companies under control or subject...
The Local Government Act 1999 is amended as follows.
In section 4(2)(b) (different performance indicators or standards may be...
(1) Section 5 (best value reviews) is amended as follows....
In section 6 (best value performance plans), after subsection (4)...
(1) Section 16 (power to modify enactments and confer new...
In section 17 (orders under section 16: procedure), after subsection...
(1) The Service shall consist of not less than six...
(1) The Service may establish committees. (2) Any committee established...
Subject to the following provisions of this Schedule, the Service...
(1) The Service may, to such extent as it may...
(1) A member of the Service who is in any...
(1) Paragraph 13 shall apply in relation to meetings of...
The validity of any proceedings of the Service shall not...
(1) Minutes shall be kept of proceedings of the Service...
(1) The application of the seal of the Service shall...
(1) The Secretary of State may pay grants and make...
The Service shall comply with any notice given by the...
(1) A person shall be disqualified for being appointed as...
(1) The Service shall— (a) keep proper accounts and proper...
In Schedule 1 to the Public Records Act 1958 (definition...
In Schedule 2 to the Parliamentary Commissioner Act 1967 (departments...
In Part 2 of Schedule 1 to the House of...
In Part 6 of Schedule 1 to the Freedom of...
(1) Paragraph 2(1)(c), (2) and (3) shall be taken to...
(1) The Service is not to be regarded as the...
In this Schedule— “delegate” includes further delegate; “financial year” means—...
(1) Subject to the provisions of this Schedule, a member...
(1) A person shall cease to be a member of...
A person who ceases (otherwise than by virtue of paragraph...
(1) The Service shall pay to its members such remuneration...
(1) The Service shall have a chief executive.
(1) The Service may appoint such employees as it may...
The Service shall not appoint an employee to be the...
(1) The property, rights and liabilities which may be transferred...
A valuation tribunal shall provide the Secretary of State with...
Before making a transfer scheme relating to the property, rights...
(1) Stamp duty shall not be chargeable on—
A transfer scheme may define the property, rights and liabilities...
A transfer scheme may contain provision— (a) for the creation,...
A transfer scheme may include such supplemental, incidental, consequential and...
(1) Anything done by or in relation to the transferor...
There may be continued by or in relation to the...
The Service shall be substituted for the transferor in any...
Where an employee of a valuation tribunal becomes an employee...
(1) If, after the day appointed by a transfer scheme...
The coming into force of section 120 shall not affect...
(1) This paragraph applies where immediately before the coming into...
(1) This paragraph applies where an authority has before the...
(1) This paragraph applies where, immediately before section 15 of...
In this Schedule, except paragraph 2(1)(a) and 3(1), any reference...
In section 47 (discretionary relief), in subsections (1)(b) and (5),...
In section 49 (reduction or remission of liability), in subsection...
Section 76 shall become Chapter 1 of Part 5, entitled...
Sections 78 to 84C shall become Chapter 2 of Part...
In the Chapter 2 so formed, at the beginning there...
In sections 78(1) and 78A(2) (which refer to revenue support...
Section 85, together with the sections in Part 5 that...
In section 88 (transport grants: supplementary), in subsections (4) and...
In section 90 (payments to and from collection funds), in...
In section 2 of the Public Works Loans Act 1965...
In section 138 (judicial review), in subsection (2)(j), after “multiplier”...
In section 139 (functions to be discharged only by authority),...
In section 140(2) (Parts 3 and 5 of the Act...
In section 141 (payments to and from authorities), in subsection...
(1) Section 143 (orders and regulations) is amended as follows....
(1) Schedule 7 (non-domestic rating multipliers) is amended as follows....
(1) Schedule 8 (non-domestic rating: pooling) is amended as follows....
In Schedule 11 (valuation tribunals)— (a) in paragraph 1 (power...
The Local Government and Housing Act 1989 is amended as...
Part 4 (revenue accounts and capital finance of local authorities)...
In section 2(2) of the Public Works Loans Act 1967...
(1) Section 70 (requirements for companies under control or subject...
For the second sentence of section 80A(4) (overpaid Housing Revenue...
In section 88(1)(d) (construction of references in Part 6 to...
(1) Schedule 4 (keeping of the Housing Revenue Account) is...
The Social Security Administration Act 1992 is amended as follows....
(1) In section 134(2) (forms that may be taken by...
In section 140B (calculation of rent rebate subsidy, rent allowance...
In section 140C (payment of subsidy), after subsection (1) there...
In section 140D (rent rebate subsidy: accounting provisions), the following...
In section 140G (interpretation of Part 8), in the definition...
In section 137(3) of the Local Government Act 1972 (which...
The Local Government Finance Act 1992 is amended as follows....
In section 11(2) (discounts), for “section 12” there is substituted...
In section 13(3) (reduced amounts), after “section 11” there is...
(1) In section 17 (completion of new dwellings), in subsection...
In section 21 (valuations for purposes of lists), in subsection...
In section 22(2) (when valuation list comes into force), for...
In section 24 (alteration of lists), in subsection (9)(b), for...
Section 25 (compilation and maintenance of new lists) ceases to...
In section 28 (information about lists)— (a) in subsection (2)(a),...
In section 66(2) (matters subject only to judicial review), in...
(1) Schedule 4 to the Local Government Act 1974 (the...
In section 67 (functions to be discharged only by the...
(1) Section 69 (interpretation of Part 1) is amended as...
(1) Section 113 (orders and regulations) is amended as follows....
(1) Schedule 2 (administration) is amended as follows.
In Schedule 4 (enforcement), at the end there is inserted—...
In Schedule 13 (minor and consequential amendments), in paragraph 80...
The Local Government (Wales) Act 1994 is amended as follows....
(1) Section 63 (regulations, orders and directions) is amended as...
In section 71(3) of the Deregulation and Contracting Out Act...
In section 1(3)(b) of the Stock Transfer Act 1982 (extension...
(1) In section 122(4) of the Housing Act 1996 (which...
The Justices of the Peace Act 1997 is amended as...
In section 67 (justices not disqualified by reason of liability...
In section 72(1) (interpretation), for the definition of “capital expenditure”...
In section 1(3) of the Local Government (Contracts) Act 1997...
The Greater London Authority Act 1999 is amended as follows....
(1) Section 52 (meetings of the London Assembly) is amended...
(1) Section 15 of the Representation of the People Act...
Sections 112 to 118 (credit approvals) cease to have effect....
(1) Section 119 (power to redistribute capital receipts of functional...
In section 120 (capital grants between the Greater London Authority...
In section 121 (revenue grants between the Greater London Authority...
(1) Section 122 (Mayor’s capital spending plan for each functional...
In section 123 (preparation of capital spending plan), for subsection...
(1) Section 124 (admissible factors in preparing capital spending plan...
(1) Section 126 (interpretation of Chapter 4) is amended as...
In Schedule 1 to the National Assembly for Wales (Transfer...
Section 33 of the Local Government Act 1988 (restrictions on...
In section 3(9) of the Homelessness Act 2002 (public’s rights...
(1) The Local Government Finance Act 1988 is amended as...
Browse 139 other sections — procedural / definitional / commencement
Power to borrow
Control of borrowing
Duty to determine affordable borrowing limit
Imposition of borrowing limits
Temporary borrowing
Protection of lenders
“Credit arrangements”
Control of credit arrangements
“Capital receipt”
Non-money receipts
Use of capital receipts
Power to invest
Risk-mitigation directions
Risk thresholds
Restriction of power to give risk-mitigation directions
Duty to cooperate with independent expert
Security for money borrowed etc
Information
Guidance
“Capital expenditure”
External funds
Local authority companies etc
Application to parish and community councils
Directions
Accounting practices
“Revenue account”
“Local authority”
Wales
Budget calculations: report on robustness of estimates etc
Minimum reserves
Budget calculations: report on inadequacy of controlled reserve
Budget monitoring: general
Budget monitoring: Greater London Authority
Authorisation of agreements during the prohibition period
Power of Ministers to pay grant
Application to Greater London Authority
Power of strategic authorities to pay grant
Power to pay grant to joint committees of London councils
Application to Mayoral development corporations outside London
Interpretation of Chapter 1
Best value grant: parishes
Best value grant: communities
Grants in connection with designation for service excellence
Grants by Ministers of the Crown in respect of best value authorities etc
Grants by Welsh Ministers in respect of Welsh principal councils
Emergency financial assistance to combined fire authorities
Local loans
Payments towards local authority indebtedness
Local government finance reports: Wales
Arrangements with respect to business improvement districts
Joint arrangements
Additional contributions and action
Duty to comply with arrangements
BID levy
Liability for BID levy
BID Revenue Account
Administration of BID levy etc
BID proposals
Approval in ballot
Power of veto
Appeal against veto
Commencement of BID arrangements
Duration of BID arrangements etc
Regulations about ballots
Power to make further provision
Crown application
Wales
Interpretation of Part 4
Submission of proposed rating lists
Small business relief
Calculation of non-domestic rating multiplier
Rural settlement lists etc
Relief for registered community amateur sports clubs
Transitional relief
Rating of meters
Exemptions for agricultural buildings
Exemption for places of religious worship
Removal of power to prescribe rateable values
Local retention of rates
Adjustments for hardship relief
Provision of information
Interpretation of Part 5
Exception of students from joint and several liability
Second and empty homes
Billing authority’s power to reduce amount of tax payable
Statutory revaluation cycle
Power to change number of valuation bands
Transitional arrangements
Amendments relating to distress
Charging orders: aggregation
Quashing of liability orders
Major precepting authorities: combined fire authorities
Amendment of section 67 of the Local Government Finance Act 1992
Vacant dwellings: use of information obtained for council tax purposes
Repeal of section 31 of the Local Government Act 1999
Housing strategies and statements
Housing Revenue Account business plans
Housing Revenue Account subsidy: payment and calculation
Housing Revenue Account subsidy: negative amounts
Housing Revenue Accounts etc: adaptation of enactments
Local housing authority houses: rents
Power to charge for discretionary services
Power to disapply section 93(1)
Power to trade in function-related activities through a company
Regulation of trading powers
Power to modify enactments in connection with charging or trading
Procedure for orders under section 97: England
Procedure for orders under section 97: Wales
Categorisation of English local authorities by reference to performance
Exercise of powers by reference to authorities' performance categories
Staff transfer matters: general
Staff transfer matters: pensions
Power to change date of elections in England
Power to change date of elections in Wales
The Valuation Tribunal Service
Transfer to Service of property, rights and liabilities
Auditors' public interest reports: time allowed for consideration
Auditors' public interest reports: publicity
Registered social landlords
Financial year
Delegation
Standards Board for England: delegation
Standards committees and monitoring officers: delegation
Paid time off for councillors not to be political donation
Overview and scrutiny committees: voting rights of co-opted members
Local polls
Generally accepted accounting practice: power to amend enactments
Appropriate sum under section 137(4) of the Local Government Act 1972
Use of fixed penalties paid for litter and dog-fouling offences
Regulation of cosmetic piercing and skin-colouring businesses
Fire brigade establishment schemes: removal of Secretary of State’s functions
Repeal of prohibition on promotion of homosexuality
Orders and regulations
General interpretation
Application to Isles of Scilly
Financial provisions
Minor and consequential amendments and repeals
Commencement
Short title and extent
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