The Local Government Best Value (Exemption) (England) Order 2003

• Citation: S.I. 2003/3343
• Sections: 3

Section 1 Citation, commencement and interpretation

(1) This Order may be cited as the Local Government Best Value (Exemption) (England) Order 2003 and shall come into force on the day after the day on which it is made.

(2) In this Order—

“budgeted income”, in relation to a parish council and a financial year, means the sum of:

the aggregate calculated for that council for that 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; and

“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 best value duties in Part 1 of the Local Government Act 1999

Parish councils, except those whose budgeted income for each of the financial years commencing in 1997, 1998 and 1999 was more than £500,000, are not subject, in relation to any of their functions, to any of the duties set out in sections 3 to 6 of the Local Government Act 1999.

Section 3 Revocation of Order

The Local Government Best Value (Exemption) (England) Order 2000 is hereby revoked.