Local Government Act 1988

Section 17(2)

F1SCHEDULE 2E+W+S Public Supply or Works Contracts: The Public Authorities

Public authoritiesE+W+S

A local authority.

[F2 An executive of a local authority (within the meaning of Part II of the Local Government Act 2000).]

[F3The Greater London Authority.]

An urban development corporation established by an order under section 135 of the Local Government, Planning and Land Act 1980.

[F4a Mayoral development corporation.]

A development corporation established for the purposes of a new town.

[F5The Homes and Communities Agency so far as exercising functions in relation to anything transferred (or to be transferred) to it as mentioned in section 52(1)(a) to (d) of the Housing and Regeneration Act 2008.]

[F6A police authority established under [F7section 3 of the Police Act 1996].].

[F8The Metropolitan Police Authority.]

A [F1fire authority constituted by a combination scheme] [F1fire and rescue authority constituted by a scheme under section 2 of the Fire and Rescue Services Act 2004 or a scheme to which section 4 of that Act applies] and a metropolitan county fire and civil defence authority.

[F9The London Fire and Emergency Planning Authority.]

[F10A metropolitan county passenger transport authority.] [F10An Integrated Transport Authority for an integrated transport area in England.]

[F11An economic prosperity board established under section 88 of the Local Democracy, Economic Development and Construction Act 2009.

A combined authority established under section 103 of that Act.]

An authority established by an order under section 10(1) of the Local Government Act 1985 (waste disposal).

[F12An authority established for an area in England by an order under section 207 of the Local Government and Public Involvement in Health Act 2007 (joint waste authorities).]

F13. . . F14. . ..

F15. . .

F16 . . ..

The Broads Authority.

[F17Any National Park authority]

F18. . .

F18. . .

[F19The Strathclyde Passenger Transport Authority.]

[F20A National Park authority in Scotland].

[F21A Transport Partnership created under the Transport (Scotland) Act 2005 (asp 12)]

[F22A joint planning board constituted under section 2(1B) of the M1Town and Country Planning Act 1990.

F18. . .]

A Passenger Transport Executive, that is to say, any body constituted as such an Executive for [F23an integrated transport area or] a passenger transport area for the purposes of Part II of the M2Transport Act 1968.

[F24A local probation board established under section 4 of the Criminal Justice and Court Services Act 2000]

[F25A probation trust.]

A joint committee discharging under section 101 of the M3Local Government Act 1972 functions of local authorities (within the meaning of that section).

InterpretationE+W+S

In the application of this Schedule to England and Wales, “local authority” means—

(a)a county council, a district council, a London borough council, a parish council, a community council or the Council of the Isles of Scilly;

(b)the Common Council of the City of London in its capacity as local authority or police authority;

and includes a residuary body established by Part VII of the M4Local Government Act 1985.

In the application of this Schedule to Scotland—

(a)“local authority” means a [F26council constituted under section 2 of the Local Government etc. (Scotland) Act 1994] or any joint board or joint committee within the meaning of the M5Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973, and

F27(b). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .