
1 
These Regulations may be cited as the Local Government Act 1988 (Defined Activities) (Competition) (England) Regulations 1988 and shall come into force on 1st September 1988.
2 
In these Regulations—
 “the Act” means the Local Government Act 1988;
 “county police authority” means a police authority constituted under section 2 of the Police Act 1964;
 “specified authority” means—
(i) any defined authority which has functions in England other than—
(a) a development corporation established for the purposes of a new town;
(b) the Commission for the New Towns; or
(c) the Inner London Education Authority; and
(ii) any joint committee which falls to be treated as a defined authority by section 1(4) of the Act and of which at least one of the members is an authority which is a specified authority by virtue of sub-paragraph (i) above;
 “work” does not include work carried out elsewhere than in England.
3 

(1) Section 6 of the Act shall apply to functional work of any description falling within any defined activity other than the maintenance of ground if the work is proposed to be carried out on or after 1st August 1989 by—
(a) the Council of the Isles of Scilly; or
(b) any other specified authority other than a local authority or a county police authority.
(2) Section 6 shall apply to functional work mentioned in paragraph (1) if it is proposed to be carried out on or after 1st August 1990 by a parish council.
(3) Section 6 shall apply to functional work of any description falling within the defined activity mentioned in section 2(2)(a) (collection of refuse) if it is proposed to be carried out on or after 1st August 1989 by a county council.
(4) Section 6 shall apply to functional work of any description falling within the defined activity mentioned in section 2(2)(d) (catering for purposes of schools and welfare) if it is proposed to be carried out on or after 1st August 1989 by a district council other than a metropolitan district council.
4 

(1) Section 6 shall apply to functional work of any description falling within the defined activity mentioned in section 2(2)(f) (maintenance of ground) if it is proposed to be carried out—
(a) on or after 1st January 1990 by the Council of the Isles of Scilly, a parish council, or any other specified authority which is neither a local authority nor a county police authority;
(b) on or after 1st January 1994 by any specified authority.
(2) Where any specified authority other than one mentioned in sub-paragraph (a) of paragraph (1) proposes to carry out functional work of any description falling within the defined activity mentioned in that paragraph in any of the calendar years 1990 to 1993, section 6 shall apply in each of those years to such part of that work as is estimated by the authority to equal in value the percentage of the value of earlier work specified below in relation to that year— 
1990  20% 
1991  40% 
1992  60% 
1993  80%
(3) For the purposes of paragraph (2)—
 “earlier work” means work falling within the defined activity mentioned in section 2(2)(f) of the Act and carried out or treated as carried out by or for the authority in the financial year ending nine months before the beginning of the calendar year in question; and
 “value” means in relation to earlier work the gross amount estimated by the authority as the cost of that work.
5 

(1) Section 6 shall apply in accordance with this regulation as respects functional work of any description if carried out by an authority named in Schedule I hereto.
(2) In the case of work falling within a defined activity mentioned in column 1 of Schedule 2, section 6 shall apply if the work is carried out by a non metropolitan district council on or after the date specified in that Schedule in relation to that activity and to the group in Schedule 1 in which the council in question is included.
(3) In the case of work falling within a defined activity mentioned in column 1 of Schedule 3, section 6 shall apply if the work is carried out by a county council on or after the date specified in that Schedule in relation to that activity and to the group in Schedule 1 in which the council in question is included.
(4) In the case of work falling within a defined activity mentioned in column 1 of Schedule 4, section 6 shall apply if the work is carried out by a London borough or metropolitan district council on or after the date specified in that Schedule in relation to that activity and to the group in Schedule 1 in which the council in question is included.
(5) This regulation shall apply—
(a) to a county police authority as if it were a member of the same numbered group as the county council for its area; and
(b) to the Common Council of the City of London (whether in its capacity as local authority or police authority) as if it were a London borough council in the group numbered 1.
6 
Where a specified authority propose to carry out functional work of any description which falls within a defined activity (whether or not by virtue of section 2(5) or (7) of the Act) and to which section 6 of the Act would not otherwise apply, it shall (if the authority so decide) be treated as work to which section 6 applies.
Nicholas Ridley
Secretary of State for the Environment
29th July 1988
SCHEDULE 1
Regulation 5(1)
GROUP 1

 Avon
 Cheshire
 Devon
 Gloucestershire
 Isle of Wight
 Norfolk
 Oxfordshire
 Surrey


 Barking and Dagenham
 Hammersmith and Fulham
 Islington
 Newham
 Waltham Forest


 Barnsley
 Coventry
 Leeds
 Rochdale
 Solihull
 Trafford


 Adur
 Ashfield
 Basildon
 Beverley
 Bolsover
 Braintree
 Bristol
 Burnley
 Carlisle
 Chelmsford
 Chesterfield
 Cleethorpes
 Cotswold
 Darlington
 Derwentside
 East Devon
 East Staffordshire
 Ellesmere Port and Neston
 Exeter
 Fylde
 Gosport
 Halton
 Hart
 Hertsmere
 Hove
 Kerrier
 Lancaster
 Lichfield
 Maldon
 Mendip
 Middlesbrough
 Newbury
 North Dorset
 North Shropshire
 Northavon
 Oswestry
 Plymouth
 Reading
 Richmondshire
 Rugby
 Ryedale
 Sedgemoor
 Slough
 South Hams
 South Norfolk
 South Somerset
 Spelthorne
 Stevenage
 Suffolk Coastal
 Taunton Deane
 Tewkesbury
 Tonbridge and Malling
 Uttlesford
 Warrington
 Wealden
 West Dorset
 West Wiltshire
 Woking
 Wrekin
 York

GROUP 2

 Bedfordshire
 Cleveland
 Dorset
 Hampshire
 Kent
 Northamptonshire
 Shropshire
 Warwickshire


 Barnet
 Croydon
 Haringey
 Kensington & Chelsea
 Redbridge
 Wandsworth


 Birmingham
 Doncaster
 Liverpool
 Rotherham
 South Tyneside
 Wakefield


 Allerdale
 Ashford
 Basingstoke and Deane
 Blaby
 Boothferry
 Breckland
 Broadland
 Cambridge
 Carrick
 Cheltenham
 Chichester
 Colchester
 Craven
 Dartford
 Dover
 East Hampshire
 East Yorkshire
 Elmbridge
 Fareham
 Gedling
 Gravesham
 Hambleton
 Hartlepool
 High Peak
 Huntingdonshire
 Kettering
 Langbaurgh-on-Tees
 Lincoln
 Malvern Hills
 Mid Bedfordshire
 Milton Keynes
 Newcastle-under-Lyme
 North East Derbyshire
 North Warwickshire
 Norwich
 Oxford
 Poole
 Redditch
 Rochester upon Medway
 Runnymede
 Salisbury
 Selby
 South Bedfordshire
 South Herefordshire
 South Northamptonshire
 South Staffordshire
 St. Albans
 Stockton-on-Tees
 Surrey Heath
 Teesdale
 Thamesdown
 Torbay
 Vale Royal
 Warwick
 Wear Valley
 West Lancashire
 Weymouth and Portland
 Wokingham
 Wychavon

GROUP 3

 Berkshire
 Cornwall
 Durham
 Hereford and Worcester
 Lancashire
 Northumberland
 Somerset
 West Sussex


 Bexley
 Ealing
 Harrow
 Kingston-upon-Thames
 Richmond-upon-Thames
 Westminster


 Bolton
 Dudley
 Manchester
 Salford
 St. Helens
 Walsall


 Alnwick
 Aylesbury Vale
 Bassetlaw
 Blackburn
 Boston
 Brentwood
 Bromsgrove
 Cannock Chase
 Castle Morpeth
 Cherwell
 Chiltern
 Congleton
 Crawley
 Daventry
 Durham
 East Dorset
 East Hertfordshire
 Eastbourne
 Epping Forest
 Fenland
 Gillingham
 Great Grimsby
 Harborough
 Hastings
 Hinckley and Bosworth
 Hyndburn
 King’s Lynn and West Norfolk
 Leicester
 Luton
 Mansfield
 Mid Devon
 Mole Valley
 North Bedfordshire
 North Hertfordshire
 North West Leicestershire
 Nottingham
 Pendle
 Portsmouth
 Reigate and Banstead
 Rochford
 Rushcliffe
 Scarborough
 Sevenoaks
 South Bucks
 South Holland
 South Oxfordshire
 South Wight
 St. Edmundsbury
 Stoke-on-Trent
 Swale
 Teignbridge
 Thanet
 Torridge
 Vale of White Horse
 Watford
 Wellingborough
 West Lindsey
 Woodspring
 Wycombe

GROUP 4

 Buckinghamshire
 Cumbria
 East Sussex
 Hertfordshire
 Leicestershire
 North Yorkshire Staffordshire Wiltshire


 Brent
 Enfield
 Havering
 Lambeth
 Southwark


 Bradford
 Gateshead
 Newcastle-upon-Tyne
 Sandwell
 Stockport
 Wigan


 Amber Valley
 Babergh
 Bath
 Blackpool
 Bournemouth
 Bridgnorth
 Broxbourne
 Canterbury
 Castle Point
 Chester
 Chorley
 Copeland
 Crewe and Nantwich
 Derby
 Easington
 East Lindsey
 Eastleigh
 Epsom and Ewell
 Forest Heath
 Glanford
 Great Yarmouth
 Harlow
 Havant
 Holderness
 Ipswich
 Kingston upon Hull
 Leominster
 Macclesfield
 Medina
 Mid Suffolk
 New Forest
 North Cornwall
 North Kesteven
 North Wiltshire
 Nuneaton and Bedworth
 Penwith
 Preston
 Restormel
 Rossendale
 Rushmoor
 Scunthorpe
 Shepway
 South Cambridgeshire
 South Kesteven
 South Ribble
 Southampton
 Stafford
 Stratford on Avon
 Tamworth
 Tendring
 Three Rivers
 Tunbridge Wells
 Wansbeck
 Waveney
 Welwyn Hatfield
 West Oxfordshire
 Winchester
 Worcester
 Wyre

GROUP 5

 Cambridgeshire
 Derbyshire
 Essex
 Humberside
 Lincolnshire
 Nottinghamshire Suffolk


 Bromley
 Greenwich
 Hillingdon
 Lewisham
 Sutton


 Bury
 Kirklees
 North Tyneside
 Sefton
 Sunderland
 Wirral


 Arun
 Barrow in Furness
 Berwick-upon-Tweed
 Blyth Valley
 Bracknell Forest
 Brighton
 Broxtowe
 Caradon
 Charnwood
 Chester-le-Street
 Christchurch
 Corby
 Dacorum
 Derbyshire Dales
 East Cambridgeshire
 East Northamptonshire
 Eden
 Erewash
 Forest of Dean
 Gloucester
 Guildford
 Harrogate
 Hereford
 Horsham
 Kennet
 Kingswood
 Lewes
 Maidstone
 Melton
 Mid Sussex
 Newark & Sherwood
 North Devon
 North Norfolk
 Northampton
 Oadby and Wigston
 Peterborough
 Purbeck
 Ribble Valley
 Rother
 Rutland
 Sedgefield
 Shrewsbury and Atcham
 South Derbyshire
 South Lakeland
 South Shropshire
 Southend-on-Sea
 Staffordshire Moorlands
 Stroud
 Tandridge
 Test Valley
 Thurrock
 Tynedale
 Wansdyke
 Waverley
 West Devon
 West Somerset
 Windsor and Maidenhead
 Worthing
 Wyre Forest

GROUP 6

 Calderdale
 Knowsley
 Oldham
 Sheffield
 Tameside
 Wolverhampton


 Camden
 Hackney
 Hounslow
 Merton
 Tower Hamlets

SCHEDULE 2
Regulation 5(2)

(1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6)
Defined activity Group 1 Group 2 Group 3 Group 4 Group 5
Collection of refuse 1st August 1991 1st January 1991 1st August 1990 1st January 1990 1st August 1989
Cleaning of buildings 1st January 1990 1st August 1989 1st August 1991 1st January 1991 1st August 1990
Other cleaning 1st August 1989 1st August 1991 1st January 1991 1st August 1990 1st January 1990
Other catering 1st August 1990 1st January 1990 1st August 1989 1st August 1991 1st January 1991
Repair and maintenance of vehicles 1st January 1991 1st August 1990 1st January 1990 1st August 1989 1st August 1991
SCHEDULE 3
Regulation 5(3)

(1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6)
Defined activity Group 1 Group 2 Group 3 Group 4 Group 5
Cleaning of buildings 1st August 1989 1st August 1991 1st January 1991 1st August 1990 1st January 1990
Other cleaning 1st August 1991 1st January 1991 1st August 1990 1st January 1990 1st August 1989
Catering for purposes of schools and welfare 1st August 1990 1st January 1990 1st August 1989 1st August 1991 1st January 1991
Other catering 1st January 1990 1st August 1989 1st August 1991 1st January 1991 1st August 1990
Repair and maintenance of vehicles 1st January 1991 1st August 1990 1st January 1990 1st August 1989 1st August 1991
SCHEDULE 4
Regulation 5(4)

(1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7)
Defined activity Group 1 Group 2 Group 3 Group 4 Group 5 Group 6
Collection of refuse 1st January 1992 1st August 1991 1st January 1991 1st August 1990 1st January 1990 1st August 1989
Cleaning of buildings 1st January 1990 1st August 1989 1st January 1992 1st August 1991 1st January 1991 1st August 1990
Other cleaning 1st August 1989 1st January 1992 1st August 1991 1st January 1991 1st August 1990 1st January 1990
Catering for purposes of schools and welfare 1st January 1991 1st August 1990 1st January 1990 1st August 1989 1st January 1992 1st August 1991
Other catering 1st August 1990 1st January 1990 1st August 1989 1st January 1992 1st August 1991 1st January 1991
Repair and maintenance of vehicles 1st August 1991 1st January 1991 1st August 1990 1st January 1990 1st August 1989 1st January 1992