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Jeffrey Shaw

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  1. England rescued Scotland from insolvency, you know. That's what led to the Act of Union.
  2. Anyway, it was Sunday morning (not Saturday night) when BST began. So even the thread title's wrong.
  3. No. If one does not use BBC services, one does not have to pay for a TV licence.
  4. I've hunted it down. See s.137 of the Local Government Act 1972 as amended. https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1972/70/section/137 It's headed 137. Power of local authorities to incur expenditure for certain purposes not otherwise authorised. (1) A local authority may, subject to the provisions of this section, incur expenditure which in their opinion is in the interests of, and will bring direct benefit to, their area or any part of it or all or some of its inhabitants, but a local authority shall not, by virtue of this subsection, incur any expenditure— (a) for a purpose for which they are, either unconditionally or subject to any limitation or to the satisfaction of any condition, authorised or required to make any payment by or by virtue of any other enactment; nor (b) unless the direct benefit accruing to their area or any part of it or to all or some of the inhabitants of their area will be commensurate with the expenditure to be incurred... (4) The expenditure of a local authority under this section in any financial year shall not exceed the amount produced by multiplying— (a) such sum as is for the time being appropriate to the authority under Schedule 12B to this Act, by (b) the relevant population of the authority’s area...
  5. But Councils already have this power. A small amount (it used to be 1% or 2%, I think) of their total revenue could be freely spent on purposes for the benefit of their residents. As far as I know, this is still in force.
  6. Let's look at ultra vires. Put simply, this phrase means 'beyond [one's legal] powers'. So it limits the power of an artificial legal entity (e.g. a company, local authority, etc. The entity's powers are set-out when it is incorporated. Any expenditure extending out from those powers is unlawful, for instance. So The Sheffield City Council cannot make bye-laws for Rotherham, nor London, nor anywhere other than Sheffield. That being so, why do the Council feel impelled to opine on foreign affairs? Even the devolved administrations in Scotland/Wales/NI (which have far greater powers than a Council) have territorial limits to legal competence!
  7. Roads will be closed for several hours. Is there any good reason why other areas of Sheffield do not have the benefit of the two annual closures (= one cycling, one the half-marathon) and why it's always S11's?
  8. Take advice from an accountant or tax adviser before any Deed of Gift. There can be pitfalls re Inheritance Tax and s.339 of the Insolvency Act 1986.
  9. 1. The Leasehold Reform Act 1967 gives the tenant (leaseholder) of a house the right- after two years' ownership- either: a. to buy the freehold reversion; or b. to extend the lease by 50yrs. 2. So your predecessor's lease extension, adding only 25yrs., was not a statutory extension at all. 3. So nor does s.16(1)(b) of the Act, which prohibits a second statutory lease extension.
  10. Best way: go direct to HMLR. They will have these details (except Estate Agents'). Start at https://www.gov.uk/search-property-information-land-registry (Beware: there are copycat websites that look like the real thing!)
  11. Er, no. 'The power' conferred by law comes from the Local Government Acts- hence from Parliament and the Crown.
  12. BBC Radio 4Extra last night featured a really enjoyable archive (1994) documentary. Well worth a listen on BBC Sounds, via https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m001w803
  13. I find the SYCMA (ne SYPTE) website very poor. It was fairly useless last week, in covering the snow chaos, too.
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