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These Regulations may be cited as the Local Government Act 1988 (Defined Activities) (Competition and Specified Periods) (Scotland) Regulations 1990, shall come into force on 20th August 1990, and shall apply to Scotland only.
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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;
 “specified work” means functional work of any description falling within the defined activity mentioned in section 2(2)(ee) of the Act (managing sports and leisure facilities), but does not include work carried out elsewhere than in Scotland.
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(1) Where a local authority or specified authority proposes to carry out specified work on or after 1st January 1992 but before 1st August 1992 (hereinafter referred to as “the first period”), or on or after 1st August 1992 but before 1st January 1993 (hereinafter referred to as “the second period”), section 6 of the Act shall apply in each of those periods to the regulated proportion of that work.
(2) In paragraph (1) above, the expression “the regulated proportion” means work to the value of the product of–(EW×P100)-Y where–
 EW is the gross amount estimated by the local authority or specified authority, as the case may be, as the cost of the specified work carried out or treated as carried out by or for that authority in the financial year ending on 31st March 1991;
 P equals 35 in respect of the first period, and 70 in respect of the second period; and
 Y is the gross amount estimated by that authority as the cost of the specified work proposed to be carried out for, but not by, the authority in the first or second period, as appropriate. 
(3) Section 6 of the Act shall apply to all specified work which is proposed to be carried out by a local authority or specified authority on or after 1st January 1993.
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The second condition, set out in section 7(3) of the Act, shall not be treated as fulfilled in respect of specified work if the period stated by virtue of section 7(3)(c) in the detailed specification is less than 4 years or exceeds 6 years.
Michael B. Forsyth
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Scottish Office
St. Andrew’s House,
Edinburgh
23rd July 1990