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(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Local Government Act 1988 (Defined Activities) (Competition) (England) Regulations 1990 and shall come into force on 30th August 1990.
(2) In these Regulations–
 “the Act” means the Local Government Act 1988;
 “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; 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;
 “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 England.
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(1) Where a specified authority proposes to carry out specified work on or after 1st January 1992 and before 1st August 1992 (“the first period”), or on or after 1st August 1992 and before 1st January 1993 (“the second period”), section 6 of the Act shall apply in each of those periods to the regulated amount of that work.
(2) In paragraph (1) above “the regulated amount” means work to the value of the product of–(EW×P100)-Y where–EWthe gross amount estimated by the authority as the cost of the specified work carried out or treated as carried out by or for the authority in the financial year ending on 31st March 1991;Ythe gross amount estimated by the authority as the cost of the specified work proposed to be carried out for but not by the authority in the relevant period; andP35 in respect of the first period, and 70 in respect of the second period.
(3) Section 6 of the Act shall apply to any specified work which is proposed to be carried out by a 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 in the detailed specification by virtue of section 7(3)(c) is less than 4 years or exceeds 6 years.
Chris Patten
Secretary of State for the Environment
27th July 1990