
1 
These Regulations may be cited as the Local Government (Direct Labour Organisations) (Competition) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 1988 and shall come into force on 1st July 1988.
2 
The Local Government (Direct Labour Organisations) (Competition) (Scotland) Regulations 1984() are hereby amended as follows:—
(a) in regulation 2(1), in the definitions of “contractual construction work”, “contractual highway work” and “contractual maintenance work”, for the amount of “£50,000” in head (a) (limit on the value of general highway works) there shall be substituted a reference to “£25,000” ;
(b) in Part I of Schedule 1, for the first reference to “£50,000” in the second column of the table in that Part (prescribed amount for general highway works), there shall be substituted a reference to “£25,000” ;
(c) in Part III of Schedule 1, for “£50,000” where it appears in Columns 1 and 2 of the first entry in the table in that Part (relating to general highway works), there shall be substituted “£25,000” ; and
(d) in Part II of Schedule 2, for “£50,000” wherever it appears in paragraphs (1) and (2) of the second column of the first entry in the table in that Part (relating to general highway works), there shall be substituted “£25,000” .
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The amendments made by regulation 2(a), (b) and (c) above shall have effect in respect of works contracts entered into after 30th June 1988, and the amendments made by regulation 2(d) above shall have effect in respect of functional work undertaken after 30th June 1988.
James Douglas-Hamilton
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Scottish Office
St Andrew’s House,
Edinburgh
22nd May 1988