The Local Authorities (Charges for Overseas Assistance and Public Path Orders) Regulations 1996

• Citation: S.I. 1996/1978
• Sections: 3

Section 1 Citation and commencement

These Regulations may be cited as the Local Authorities (Charges for Overseas Assistance and Public Path Orders) Regulations 1996 and shall come into force for the purposes of regulation 3(2) on 1st April 1997 and for all other purposes on the day after the day on which they are made.

Section 2 Overseas assistance

(1) A relevant authority may impose a charge for providing advice or assistance in accordance with section 1 of the Local Government (Overseas Assistance) Act 1993 .

(2) The amount of a charge under this regulation is to be at the discretion of the relevant authority and, in determining that amount, the authority shall have regard to its costs in providing the advice or assistance in question.

(3) In this regulation, “relevant authority” means an authority (other than a joint committee) which is mentioned in any of the following provisions of section 152 of the Local Government and Housing Act 1989 —

(a) paragraphs (a) to (f), (h), (i), (ja), and (k) to (m) of subsection (2), and

(b) paragraphs (a) and (e) of subsection (3).

Section 3 Public path orders

(1) The Local Authorities (Recovery of Costs for Public Path Orders) Regulations 1993 are amended as follows.

(2) In regulation 2(1), in the definition of “authority”, for the words from “a joint or special planning board” to “the Local Government Act 1972” there is substituted “a National Park authority”.

(3) Regulation 4(2) is omitted.