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(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Local Government Act 1988 (Competition) (Housing Management) (Wales) Regulations 1997 and shall come into force on 18th April 1997.
(2) These Regulations apply only in relation to—
(a) a county or county borough council in Wales; and
(b) a joint committee to which section 1(4) of the Act applies and which is appointed only by two or more councils within paragraph (a) above.
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In these Regulations—
 “the Act” means the Local Government Act 1988;
 “the cost” means the estimated total annual cost including overheads provided that those overheads are not treated by a relevant authority as forming part of the cost of—
(a) another defined activity, or
(b) work to which Part III of the Local Government, Planning and Land Act 1980 applies;
 “housing management work” means, in relation to a relevant authority, work of any description falling within the defined activity mentioned in section 2(2)(h) of the Act other than work carried out under a works contract in relation to which that authority were a bidding authority to which section 4 of the Act (works contracts: restrictions) applies;
 “relevant authority” means a council or a committee to which these Regulations apply by virtue of regulation 1(2); and
 “voluntary competitive tendering” means the awarding of housing management work before 18th April 1997 following a competitive process in which at least 3 persons other than defined authorities were invited to tender for that work.
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(1) Subject to paragraph (2) below, section 6 of the Act (functional work: restrictions) shall apply to an amount, expressed as a sum of money, equal to ninety five per cent. of the cost of housing management work (‘the relevant amount’) if it is proposed to be carried out on or after—
(a) 1st April 1998, by a relevant authority specified in Part I of the Schedule to these Regulations;
(b) 1st July 1998, by the relevant authority specified in Part II of the said Schedule; and
(c) 1st April 1999, by a relevant authority specified in Part III of the said Schedule.
(2) Where housing management work is being carried out by a relevant authority in consequence of voluntary competitive tendering, then, for the period ending on 17th April 2002 or 5 years after that work was awarded, whichever is shorter, the relevant amount shall be reduced in relation to that authority by an amount equal to the cost of that work which is being carried out by that authority.
Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Wales
Gwilym Jones
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Welsh Office
17th March 1997
THE SCHEDULE
Regulation 3
Part I
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The councils of the following counties or, as the case may be, county boroughs.
 Blaenau Gwent
 Bridgend
 Cardiff
 Ceredigion
 Isle of Anglesey
 Merthyr Tydfil
 Monmouthshire
 Newport
 The Vale of Glamorgan
 Torfaen
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Any joint committee.
Part IIWrexham County Borough Council

Part III
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The councils of the following counties or, as the case may be, county boroughs.
 Caerphilly
 Carmarthenshire
 Conwy
 Denbighshire
 Flintshire
 Gwynedd
 Neath Port Talbot
 Pembrokeshire
 Powys
 Rhondda, Cynon, Taff
 Swansea