The Local Government Act 1986 (c. 10) is an act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.
The act was passed primarily in response to the use of publicity by the Greater London Council in its attempt to prevent the passing of the bill for the Local Government Act 1985.Bailey and Paddison, p 54.
Provisions
Publicity Section 2 of the act prohibited councils from spending on anything that would imply support for a political party.
Section 4 of the act states that the government can publish a code of practice on local authority publicity. Section 6 of the act defines publicity as anything that is addressed to the public.
Section 2A
Section 28 of the Local Government Act 1988 added the now-repealed Section 2A to this Act, restricting local authorities from "promoting homosexuality".
See also Local Government Act
Notes
References Halsbury's Statutes of England and Wales. Fourth Edition. 2009 Reissue. LexisNexis. Volume 25(2). Pages 807 to 815. "The Local Government Act 1986". Halsbury's Statutes of England. Butterworths. London. 1987. Binder 56: Continuation Binder 1986. Page 167. Peter Allsop (ed). "Local Government Act 1986*". Current Law Statutes Annotated 1986. Sweet & Maxwell. Stevens & Sons. London. W Green & Son. Edinburgh. 1987. Volume 1. Pages 10 to 10/12. Halsbury's Statutory Instruments. Volume 11. pp 77, 203, 204, 249 and 415. Tom F Richardson. Public Relations in Local Government. Heinemann Professional Publishing. 1988. Pages 33 and 56 to 58. Brian Harvey. "Public relations in local government". Sam Black (ed). Practice of Public Relations. Fourth Edition. 1995. Routledge. 2011. p 86. Dawn Oliver. Government in the United Kingdom. Open University Press. 1991. Pages 83 and 84. Google. Bailey and Paddison. The Reform of Local Government Finance in Britain. Routledge. London and New York. 1988. Reprinted 2006. Pages 52 and 54.
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