Local Authorities (Combined Purchasing) Act, 1939
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Definitions. |
2.—(1) In this Act— | |
the expression “the Minister” means the Minister for Local Government and Public Health; | ||
the expression “the Act of 1925” means the Local Authorities (Combined Purchasing) Act, 1925 (No. 20 of 1925); | ||
the expression “official contractor” means a person appointed or deemed to have been appointed under this Act to be an official contractor for the purposes of this Act; | ||
the expression “standard price” means, in relation to any commodity, the price which the official contractor concerned stated, in his application for appointment as official contractor in respect of such commodity, to be the price at which he was willing to supply such commodity as such official contractor. | ||
(2) Each of the following persons and bodies shall be a local authority for the purposes of this Act, that is to say:— | ||
(a) the council of a county, county borough, borough, or urban district, a board of guardians, the commissioners of a town, and a port sanitary authority, and | ||
(b) a person appointed by or under statute to perform the functions or any of the functions of any such body as is mentioned in the next preceding paragraph of this sub-section, and | ||
(c) a committee or joint committee or board or joint board (whether corporate or unincorporate) of or appointed by one or more of the bodies and persons mentioned in either of the preceding paragraphs of this sub-section, and | ||
(d) any council, committee, or other body which, immediately before the passing of this Act, was, by virtue of any Act other than the Act of 1925, a local authority for the purposes of the Act of 1925, and | ||
(e) any council, committee, or other body which is for the time being declared by an order made by the Minister under this Act to be a local authority within the meaning and for the purposes of this Act. | ||
(3) Any goods or articles which are required by a local authority for the purposes of the exercise or performance of any of its powers or duties shall be a commodity for the purposes of this Act, and the word “commodity” shall in this Act be construed accordingly. |