
1 
These Regulations may be cited as the Local Government Changes for England (Housing Management) (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 1997 and shall come into force on 12th December 1997.
2 
The Local Government Changes for England (Direct Labour and Service Organisations) Regulations 1994 are amended, in regulation 12 (interpretation etc.)—
(a) by the omission, after “12.”, of “—(1)”;
(b) by the substitution, for sub-paragraph (d), of the following—“
(d) “other housing work” means work falling within the defined activity in section 2(2)(h) (housing management) of the Act which is not excepted housing work;”; and
(c) by the addition, at the end, of the following—“
(e) “the reorganisation period”—
(i) where the reorganisation date is 1st April 1996 and the work in question is excepted housing work, means the period beginning on the order date and ending 24 months after the reorganisation date;
(ii) where the reorganisation date is 1st April 1997 or 1st April 1998 and the work in question is excepted housing work, means the period beginning on the order date and ending 30 months after the reorganisation date;
(iii) where the reorganisation date is 1st April 1997 or 1st April 1998 and the work in question is other housing work, means the period beginning on the order date and ending 24 months after the reorganisation date;
(iv) in any other case, means the period of 18 months beginning on the reorganisation date.”
3 
The Local Government Act 1988 (Competition) (Housing Management) (England) Regulations 1994 are amended, in regulation 3 (application of section 6), by the substitution, for “Section 6”, of “Subject to regulation 14A (housing management: disapplication of competition provisions) of the Local Government Changes for England (Direct Labour and Service Organisations) Regulations 1994, section 6”.
Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for the Environment
Hilary Armstrong
Minister of State,
Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions
17th November 1997