2001 Chapter 9

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This document relates to the Scottish Local Authorities (Tendering) Act 2001 (asp 9) which received Royal Assent on 6 July 2001

SCOTTISH LOCAL AUTHORITIES (TENDERING) ACT 2001

EXPLANATORY NOTES

INTRODUCTION

1.     These Explanatory Notes have been prepared by the Scottish Executive in order

to assist the reader of the Act and to help inform debate on it. They do not form part of

the Act and have not been endorsed by the Parliament.

2.     The Notes should be read in conjunction with the Act. They are not, and are not

meant to be, a comprehensive description of the Act. So where a section or schedule, or

a part of a section or schedule, does not seem to require any explanation or comment,

none is given.

THE ACT

Section 1     Compulsory competitive tendering: local authorities

3.     The Local Government Act 1988 requires local authorities to seek tenders for

work within the scope of the "defined activities" set out in section 2(2) of the Act. This

opens up the relevant activities to competition. Section 2(10) of the Act enables the

Scottish Ministers to make orders modifying the application of the competition

provisions in Part I of the Act in their application to local authorities. Orders made

under this section may have effect until 31 December 2001.

4.     Section 1 deletes the reference to 31 December 2001 in section 2(10). The

consequence of this section will be to allow orders made under section 2(10) to have

effect after this date.

Section 2     Short title and commencement

5.     This section makes provision as to citation and commencement. The Act will come

into force one month after Royal Assent.

PARLIAMENTARY HISTORY OF SCOTTISH LOCAL AUTHORITIES (TENDERING) ACT 2001

The following table sets out, for each Stage of the proceedings in the Scottish Parliament on the Bill for this Act, the dates on which proceedings at that Stage took place, the references to the Official Report of those proceedings and the dates on which Committee Reports were published and the references to those Reports.