county police authoritymeans a police authority constituted under section 2 of the Police Act 1964;
earlier workmeans work falling within the defined activity mentioned in section 2(2)(f) of the Act and carried out or treated as carried out by or for the authority in the financial year ending nine months before the beginning of the calendar year in question;
specified authoritymeans— (a) any defined authority which has functions in England other than— (a) a development corporation established for the purposes of a new town;
the Actmeans the Local Government Act 1988;
valuemeans in relation to earlier work the gross amount estimated by the authority as the cost of that work.