Statutory Instrument 2000 No. 339

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

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(a) the aggregate calculated for that council for a year, under section 50(3) of the Local Government Finance Act 1992[2]; and

(b) 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[3].

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



Signed by the authority of the Secretary of State


Hilary Armstrong
Minister of State Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions

10th February 2000

[2] 1992 c. 14.back

[3] See section 1(1) and (2) of the Local Government Act 1999, under which these bodies are best value authorities in England.back