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The Accounts and Audit Regulations 1996

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PART IIDESCRIPTIONS OF FUNCTIONS

1.  Nursery, primary, secondary and special education.

2.  Continuing education, education support services which are not defined activities by virtue of an order under section 2(3) of the 1988 Act, youth and community services and catering for any of these purposes.

3.  Probation and magistrates' court services, fire services, civil defence and emergency planning.

4.  Social services functions within the meaning of section 3 of the Local Authority Social Services Act 1970(1)

5.  Housing

6.  Waste collection and disposal.

7.  Public transport, parking and highways.

8.  Economic development and functions under the planning Acts (within the meaning of section 336 of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990(2)

9.  Environmental health, sport and recreation, parks and open spaces, cemeteries and crematoria and port health.

10.  Electoral registration, registration of births, marriages and deaths, civic ceremonies, revenue collection and corporate management.

11.  Flood defence, coast protection, allotments and smallholdings, consumer protection, libraries, museums and galleries and any activity in respect of which expenditure has been incurred under section 137 of the Local Government Act 1972.

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