
1 
These Regulations may be cited as the Local Government Act 1988 (Defined Activities) (Competition) (Scotland) Regulations 1988, shall come into force on 1st September 1988 and shall apply to Scotland only.
2 
In these Regulations—
 “the Act” means the Local Government Act 1988;
 “local authority” means a regional, islands or district council but does not include a joint committee or joint board within the meaning of section 235 of the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973 ;
 “specified authority” means a joint committee or joint board within the meaning of section 235 of the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973, a development corporation established for the purposes of a new town or a water development board;
 “work” does not include work carried out elsewhere than in Scotland.
3 
Section 6 of the Act shall apply to functional work of any description falling within any defined activity mentioned in section 2(2)(a) to (e) and (g) of the Act if it is proposed to be carried out on or after 1st August 1989 by a specified authority.
4 

(1) Section 6 of the Act 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 to be carried out on or after 1st January 1994 by a specified authority or a local authority.
(2) Where any specified authority or local authority proposes to carry out functional work of any description falling within the defined activity mentioned in paragraph (1) above in any of the calendar years 1990 to 1993, section 6 shall apply in each of those years to only such part of the work as is estimated by the specified authority or local authority to equal in value the percentage of the value of earlier work specified in relation to that year—
1990 20%
1991 40%
1992 60%
1993 80%
(3) For the purposes of paragraph (2) above
 “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 specified authority or local 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 specified authority or local authority as the cost of that work.
5 

(1) Section 6 of the Act shall apply in accordance with this regulation as respects functional work of any description if carried out by a local authority named in any of the groups in Schedule 1 hereto.
(2) In the case of functional work falling within a defined activity mentioned in the heading of each of the columns numbered 2 to 7 of Schedule 2 hereto, section 6 shall apply if the work is carried out by a local authority on or after the date specified in column 1 of that Schedule in relation to that activity and to the group in Schedule 1 hereto in which the local authority in question is included.
6 
Where a specified authority or a local 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.
Ian Lang
Minister of State, Scottish Office
St Andrew’s House,
Edinburgh
8th August 1988
SCHEDULE 1
Regulation 5(1)

 Borders Region
 Grampian Region
 Tayside Region

 Central Region
 Highland Region

 Dumfries & Galloway Region
 Lothian Region

 Fife Region
 Strathclyde Region

 City of Aberdeen District
 Banff & Buchan District
 Clydebank District
 Dumbarton District
 Eastwood District
 Gordon District
 Kincardine & Deeside District
 Monklands District
 North East Fife District
 Skye & Lochalsh District
 Tweedale District

 Annandale & Eskdale District
 Bearsden & Milngavie District
 Clydesdale District
 City of Dundee District
 City of Edinburgh District
 Hamilton District
 Kirkcaldy District
 Moray District
 Perth & Kinross District
 Strathkelvin District
 West Lothian District

 Angus District
 Berwickshire District
 Cumbernauld & Kilsyth District
 Dunfermline District
 Ettrick & Lauderdale District
 Inverclyde District
 Kyle & Carrick District
 Motherwell District
 Renfrew District
 Stirling District
 Wigtown District

 Argyll & Bute District
 Caithness District
 Cumnock & Doon Valley District
 East Kilbride District
 Falkirk District
 Inverness District
 Lochaber District
 Nairn District
 Ross & Cromarty District
 Stewartry District

 Badenoch & Strathspey District
 Clackmannan District
 Cunninghame District
 East Lothian District
 City of Glasgow District
 Kilmarnock & Loudoun District
 Midlothian District
 Nithsdale District
 Roxburgh District
 Sutherland District

 Orkney Islands Area

 Shetland Islands Area

 Western Isles Islands Area
SCHEDULE 2
Regulation 5(2)


1 2 3 4 5 6 7
Date Refuse Collection Building Cleaning Other Cleaning School & Welfare Catering Other Catering Vehicle Maintenance
1 August 1989 Groups 5 & 10 Groups 1, 6 & 11 Group 9 Groups 2 & 12 Groups 3 & 7 Groups 4 & 8
1 January 1990 Group 9 Groups 4, 5 & 10 Group 8 Groups 1 & 11 Groups 2, 6 & 12 Groups 3 & 7
1 August 1990 Group 8 Groups 3 & 9 Group 7 Groups 4 & 10 Groups 1, 5 & 11 Groups 2, 6 & 12
1 January 1991 Group 7 Groups 2 & 8 Groups 6 & 12 Group 3 Groups 4, 9 & 10 Groups 1, 5 & 11
1 August 1991 Groups 6 & 12 Group 7 Groups 5 & 11 — Group 8 Groups 9 & 10
1 January 1992 Group 11 Group 12 Group 10 — — —