2 Boundaries of the general power
Localism Act 2011 (2011 c 20) | Legislation

2  Boundaries of the general power

(1)     If exercise of a pre-commencement power of a local authority is subject to restrictions, those restrictions apply also to exercise of the general power so far as it is overlapped by the pre-commencement power.

(2)     The general power does not enable a local authority to do—

(a)     anything which the authority is unable to do by virtue of a pre-commencement limitation, or

(b)     anything which the authority is unable to do by virtue of a post-commencement limitation which is expressed to apply—

(i)     to the general power,

(ii)

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