The Local Government (Direct Labour Organisations) (Competition) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 1988

Made: 22nd May 1988

Laid before Parliament: 8th June 1988

Coming into force: 1st July 1988

The Secretary of State, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by sections 7 and 9(3) of the Local Government, Planning and Land Act 1980([^f00001]) and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, hereby makes the following Regulations:

1

These Regulations may be cited as the Local Government (Direct Labour Organisations) (Competition) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 1988 and shall come into force on 1st July 1988.

2

The Local Government (Direct Labour Organisations) (Competition) (Scotland) Regulations 1984([^f00002]) are hereby amended as follows:—

• (a) in regulation 2(1), in the definitions of “contractual construction work”, “contractual highway work” and “contractual maintenance work”, for the amount of “£50,000” in head (a) (limit on the value of general highway works) there shall be substituted a reference to “£25,000” ;

• (b) in Part I of Schedule 1, for the first reference to “£50,000” in the second column of the table in that Part (prescribed amount for general highway works), there shall be substituted a reference to “£25,000” ;

• (c) in Part III of Schedule 1, for “£50,000” where it appears in Columns 1 and 2 of the first entry in the table in that Part (relating to general highway works), there shall be substituted “£25,000” ; and

• (d) in Part II of Schedule 2, for “£50,000” wherever it appears in paragraphs (1) and (2) of the second column of the first entry in the table in that Part (relating to general highway works), there shall be substituted “£25,000” .

3

The amendments made by regulation 2(a), (b) and (c) above shall have effect in respect of works contracts entered into after 30th June 1988, and the amendments made by regulation 2(d) above shall have effect in respect of functional work undertaken after 30th June 1988.

Signed

James Douglas-Hamilton — Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Scottish Office — 22nd May 1988

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations amend the Local Government (Direct Labour Organisations) (Competition) (Scotland) Regulations 1984 in their application to highway work.

The 1984 Regulations prescribe £50,000 as the maximum value of a contract for highway works which a local authority may enter into without prior competitive tendering. They also apply tendering requirements to highway functional work worth more than £50,000 and to certain highway works contracts and highway functional work worth £50,000 or less if the value of the contract or work and the value of all similar work worth £50,000 or less previously contracted for or done by the authority in the current financial year exceeds a prescribed percentage of the total value of similar work contracted for or done in the previous year.

These Regulations substitute £25,000 for £50,000 in respect of works contracts for general highway works entered into on or after 30th June 1988 and in respect of functional work undertaken after 30th June 1988.

Footnotes

[^f00001]: 1980 c. 65

[^f00002]: S.I. 1984/159