
1 
This Order may be cited as the Local Authorities (Goods and Services) (Public Bodies) Order 1998 and shall come into force on 10th March 1998.
2 
Each of the following, being a person appearing to the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions and to the Secretary of State for Wales to be exercising functions of a public nature, shall be a public body for the purposes of the Local Authorities (Goods and Services) Act 1970 in its application to England and Wales—
 Bedford (Cauldwell and Kingsbrook) Regeneration Partnership
 Bedford (Queens Park) Partnership Limited
 Dewsbury Partnership Limited
 Into Work (Sunderland) Limited
 Ryedale Energy Conservation Group Limited.
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(1) The restriction in paragraph (2) below shall not apply in relation to Ryedale Energy Conservation Group Limited.
(2) Agreements which may be entered into by a body by virtue of this Order shall be restricted to agreements with a local authority for the provision of administrative, professional or technical services by that authority to that body, in connection with financial or other assistance given or to be given to that body by any person for the purposes of the regeneration of any part of that authority’s area.
Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions
Hilary Armstrong
Minister of State,
Department of the Environment,Transport and the Regions
12th February 1998Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Wales
Win Griffiths
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Welsh Office
13th February 1998