Article 1Citation, commencement and territorial application#
(1)This Order may be cited as the Local Government (Best Value) Performance Indicators and Performance Standards (Amendment) (England) Order 2003 and shall come into force on 1st April 2003.
(2)This Order applies to England only.
Article 2Government (Best Value) Performance Indicators and Performance Standards Order 2003#
(1)The Local Government (Best Value) Performance Indicators and Performance Standards Order 2003 is amended as follows.
(2)For article 10, substitute—“10 1 A waste authority (other than a waste authority to which paragraph (3) or (4) applies) which achieved, in the financial year beginning with 1st April 1998—a a recycling and composting rate specified in column (1) of Part I of Schedule 8 to this Order shall, in relation to indicators 1 and 2 in Schedule 7 (taken together) meet for the financial year beginning with 1st April 2003 the standard specified in the corresponding entry in column (2) of that Part;b a recycling and composting rate specified in column (1) of Part 2 of that Schedule shall, in relation to indicators 1 and 2 in Schedule 7 (taken together) meet for the financial year beginning with 1st April 2005 the standard specified in the corresponding entry in column (2) of that Part.2 For the purposes of paragraph (1), the recycling and composting rate for an authority is that which is set out for the waste authority in the document published by the DETR entitled “Guidance on Municipal Waste Management Strategies”; (published on 1st March 2001); and a waste authority which is stated in that document to have failed to supply to the DETR adequate details of the recycling and composting rates is treated for the purposes of—a paragraph (1)(a) of this article and Part I of Schedule 8 to this Order as having a recycling and composting rate of 16% or more; andb paragraph (1)(b) of this article and Part II of that Schedule as having a recycling and composting rate of 19% or more.3 Those waste authorities specified in column 1 of Part 1 of Schedule 8A to this Order shall, in relation to indicators 1 and 2 in Schedule 7 (taken together) meet for the financial year beginning with 1st April 2003 the standard specified in the corresponding entry in column (2) of that Part.4 Those waste authorities specified in column 1 of Part 2 of Schedule 8A to this Order shall, in relation to indicators 1 and 2 in Schedule 7 (taken together) meet for the financial year beginning with 1st April 2005 the standard specified in the corresponding entry in column (2) of that Part.5 For the purposes of this article “waste authority” means a waste collection authority or a waste disposal authority.”
(3)After Schedule 8, insert—“”
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