The Local Government Best Value (Exemption) (England) Order 2000

• Citation: S.I. 2000/339
• Sections: 2

Section 1 Citation, commencement and interpretation

(1) This Order may be cited as the Local Government Best Value (Exemption) (England) Order 2000 and shall come into force on the day after the day on which it is made.

(2) In this Order—

“budgeted income” of a parish council means the sum of—

the aggregate calculated for that council for a year, under section 50(3) of the Local Government Finance Act 1992 ; and

the budget requirement calculated under section 50(4) of that Act and included in the council’s precept for that year;

disregarding any substituted calculations made under section 51 of that Act, except where the calculation made under section 50(4) of that Act has been quashed because of a failure to comply with section 50 of that Act in making such calculation;

“parish council” means a parish council or a parish meeting of a parish which does not have a separate parish council .

Section 2 Exemption from the duties in Part 1 of the Act

A parish council whose budgeted income for any of the financial years commencing in 1997, 1998, or 1999 is not more than £500,000 is not subject, in relation to any of its functions, to any of the duties set out in sections 3 to 6 of the Local Government Act 1999.