
1 
This Order may be cited as the Local Authorities (Goods and Services) (PublicBodies) Order 1990 and shall come into force on 1st April 1990.
2 
Each of the following bodies which is a person appearing to the Secretaries ofState to be exercising functions of a public nature shall be a public body for the purposesof the Local Authorities (Goods and Services) Act 1970 in its application to England andWales:
 The City Literary Institute;
 Medway Housing Society Limited.
3 

(1) Agreements which may be entered into by the Society by virtue of this Ordershall only be for the provision by a local authority to the Society of administrative,professional or technical services in connection with the management or maintenance bythe Society of houses situated on land transferred to the Society by a local authorityunder section 32 of the Housing Act 1985.
(2) In paragraph (1)—
 “houses” has the same meaning as in section 56 of the Housing Act 1985; and
 “the Society” means Medway Housing Society Limited.
Chris Patten
Secretary of State for the Environment
5th March 1990Peter Walker
Secretary of State for Wales
1st March 1990