Local Government Act 1976 · Updated to 1 Dec 2012 · Part IV · Conduct of Business
36. Contracts
Feedback & supportA local authority may enter into contracts necessary for the discharge of any of its functions provided that such contracts do not involve any expenditure in that year in excess of the sums provided in the approved annual estimates for the discharge of such functions unless such expenditure in that year authorized under section 56.
All contracts made by the local authority or by a Committee thereof on behalf of the local authority shall be made in accordance with the standing orders of the local authority and in the case of contracts for the supply of goods or materials or the execution of works the standing orders shall require that—
except as otherwise provided therein tenders shall be called for in such manner as may in such orders be prescribed; and
no contract enduring for a longer period than the time elapsing between the making of such contract and the end of the financial year shall be made without the previous consent of the local authority.