The Act – an Overview
6.The Act provides:
	a duty to secure Best Value in local government service provision;
	an extension of the Accounts Commission for Scotland’s powers to hold hearings and publish findings so that they cover issues relating to Best Value and Community Planning;
	the provision of a Ministerial intervention power for continued or extraordinary statutory failure in Best Value or a significant misuse of the power of well being;
	amendments to constraints on local authority trading activity, with the repeal of all existing legislation relating to compulsory competitive tendering;
	a statutory basis for public performance reporting and arrangements to improve accountability;
	a statutory basis for Community Planning to ensure long-term commitment to effective partnership working with communities and between local authorities and other key bodies and organisations;
	a power of well-being to enable local authorities to work in a more innovative and creative way in responding to the needs of their communities; and
	a vehicle to progress a number of miscellaneous provisions which relate to local government matters.
7.The Act is in the following parts:
	Part 1: Best Value and Accountability
	Part 2: Community Planning
	Part 3: Power to advance Well-being
	Part 4: Enforcement and Scrutiny
	Part 5: Rating and council tax
	Part 6: Waste Management
	Part 7: Finance
	Part 8: Miscellaneous
	Part 9: General