Commentary on Sections Introduction Section 216: Consequential amendments
505.Section 216 repeals Part V of the Local Government and Housing Act 1989 and brings into effect Schedule 14 (other consequential amendments). Section 216(3) – 216(5) provide that amendments made in statutory instruments as a result of the repeal of Part V of the 1989 Act may provide for an expression used to have the meaning given, for the time being, by a document which has been identified as proper practices for the purposes of section 21(2)(b) of the Local Government Act 2003 by regulations made under section 21 of that Act. The intention, as with Orders made under section 212, is that descriptions are able to be based on documents such as those setting out standard local authority accounting practices, for example SORP, without needing to amend the Order where changes are made to such documents.