Part 1 of the Transparency of Lobbying, Non-Party Campaigning and Trade Union Administration Act 2014 (TLNPCTUAA 2014) regulates consultant lobbying—the business of making representations to government on behalf of clients. Consultant lobbyists are required to be registered with the Office of the Registrar of Consultant Lobbyists (ORCL), and disclose the names of their clients on the register. They are also required to disclose whether they subscribe to a publicly available code of conduct. This will not affect most firms, but you should not assume the legislation is irrelevant to you. Guidance issued by the ORCL (ORCL guidance) clearly anticipates that law firms can be caught by the lobbying regime. If your firm has any contact with ministers or permanent secretaries, you should consider carefully whether you need to register. Who is required to register as a consultant lobbyist If you intend to carry on the business of consultant lobbying, you must be registered on the Register of consultant lobbyists before doing so. It is an offence to engage in lobbying while unregistered. You must register in

A statute enabling certain local and other authorities to agree to provide public bodies with specified goods and services by agreement containing such terms as to payment or otherwise as the parties consider appropriate.

ARCHIVED: This Precedent has been archived and is not maintained. The [insert name of Traffic Authority] ([insert name of road and its location]) (Prohibition of [Waiting OR Driving OR Loading OR Double Parking]) Order [insert year] In exercise of the powers conferred upon it by section 2, sub-sections [insert as appropriate] of the Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984 (hereinafter referred to as ‘the 1984 Act’) and of all other enabling powers and after consultation with the Chief Officer of Police, the [insert name of Traffic Authority] hereby makes the following Order: 1 This Order called [insert the Order’s full title as set out above] comes into force on [insert commencement date]. 2   2.1 In this Order ‘Parking Disc’ means a parking card coloured blue, issued to a disabled person which entitles the person to special local parking facilities , and is capable of showing the quarter hour period during which a period of waiting begins. 2.2 For the purposes of this Order a vehicle is regarded as displaying a disabled person's

The regime regulated by local authorities under the Environmental Permitting (England and Wales) Regulations 2010, SI 2010/675 which relates to Part A(2) installations and requires the operators to obtain a permit to operate.

Local Authority Pollution Prevention and Control is the regime by which local authorities deal with reducing pollution and improving air quality from Part B installations, ie small industrial installations.

What is a Local Development Order? A local development order (LDO) grants planning permission for a specified type and/or class of development within a defined area. LDOs are made at local authority level by a local planning authority (LPA). Similarly to permitted development rights, which operate nationally, an LDO avoids the need for developers to apply to the LPA for planning permission for the types and/or classes of development specified in the LDO and instead deems planning permission granted. In England, the National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF) strongly encourages LPAs to use LDOs to provide certainty about the prospects of securing planning permission for specified forms of development, especially where this would support housing, regeneration, economic growth or environmental improvement. In Wales, Planning Policy Wales (PPW) similarly notes that LPAs should consider all policy options, including the use of LDOs, when promoting economic development, to simplify the planning process for enterprises in their area, in particular in enterprise zones. LPAs can make LDOs to secure a variety of planning purposes, including: • permitting the development of buildings and related

A national voluntary membership body created in 1997 to replace the associations which had previously represented different types of local authority and to provide a unified voice for local government in England and Wales.

The Welsh Government has reported that the Senedd has passed the Local Government Finance (Wales) Bill, which will establish a series of changes to improve the tax systems. For non-domestic rates, the Bill will increase how often the values of all non-domestic properties in Wales are updated to once every three years, provide more flexibility to change reliefs and exemptions, enable changes to the calculation of payments for the different categories of ratepayers, close known tax avoidance arrangements and increase the ability to tackle future avoidance and enable improvements to the information provided by ratepayers. In relation to Council tax, the Bill will establish a five yearly cycle of property revaluations starting from April 2028, whilst also allowing Welsh Ministers to amend future revaluation years should the circumstances require, provide more flexibility for the organisation and labelling of tax bands if required to fit future possible redesigns of the system, ensure the continuation of our national Council Tax Reduction Scheme by providing essential financial help to low-income households and increase the flexibility to make changes to discounts and persons disregarded from paying council tax.

Local Government Minister Alison McGovern MP has written to the Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS) Advisory Board clarifying the government’s position on investment decisions relating to boycotts, divestment and sanctions. The letter states that decisions concerning boycotts, divestment and sanctions are matters of UK foreign policy and therefore the responsibility of central government rather than local authorities. It further states that local authorities should not adopt investment policies that go beyond or differ from UK Government sanctions or foreign policy positions.

Local Government analysis: The claimant made a series of unsuccessful applications to a local authority for planning permission. An issue arose concerning the claimant’s right to a refund of the application fee for its last application. The Council refused to refund the fee and the claimant made a complaint of maladministration to the Local Government Ombudsman (LGO), arguing that the Council had failed to consider exercising a discretion to refund the fee. Following an investigation, the LGO first concluded that there had been maladministration but then withdrew that decision and made a new decision that there was no jurisdiction to consider the complaint because it raised questions of law. The claimant challenged the LGO’s decisions in judicial review. The court concluded that although the LGO had no power to withdraw a decision, the second decision that there was no maladministration was lawful and the claim was refused. Written by Denis Edwards, barrister, Normanton Chambers.

One of the largest schemes in the UK, the Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS) is governed by the Local Government Pension Scheme Regulations 1997 (SI 1997/1612) and is exempt from many of the legal requirements applying to occupational pension schemes (including member-nominated trustees, the statutory funding objective and the Pension Protection Fund) but not the internal dispute resolution requirements.

In line with its functions under reg 110 of the Local Government Pension Scheme Regulations 2013, SI 2013/2356,  the Local Government Pension Scheme Advisory Board (SAB) has written to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government on 27 November 2024 to recommend ministerial approval on guidance produced by SAB, and the Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy (CIPFA), for administering authorities to follow when preparing the Funding Strategy Statement (FSS). The new FSS guidance was approved by SAB when it met on 25 November 2024, and by CIPFA’s Public Finance Management Board on 7 November 2024. The new FSS guidance aims to assist administering authorities create their own funding strategy, covering all the necessary topic areas but without being prescriptive in the policy approach to take. The letter also recommends an amendment to reg 58 which refers to previous CIPFA guidance.