(1) Any local authority may expend money in and about preparing and passing through Parliament, or assisting or opposing in its passage through Parliament, any Bill in cases where the interests of that local authority or the inhabitants of its district are concerned.
(2) For the purposes of subsection (1), local authority means any local authority within the meaning of the Local Government Act 2002.
(3) Amendment(s) incorporated in the Act(s).
Section 2(2): substituted, on 1 July 2003, by section 262 of the Local Government Act 2002 (2002 No 84).