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| Function | Powers & Duties | Statutory Provisions |
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| Allotments | Powers to provide allotments. Duty to provide allotment gardens if demanded unsatisfied | Small Holding & Allotments Act 1908, ss. 23, 26, and 42 |
| Baths and Washhouses | Power to provide public baths and washhouses | Public Health At 1936, Ss 221, 222, 223 and 227 |
| Burial grounds, cemeteries and crematoria |
Power to acquire and maintain | Open Spaces Act 1906, Ss 9 and 10; Local |
| Power to provide | Government Act 1972, s. 214; Parish Councils and Burial Authorities | |
| Power to agree to maintain monuments and memorials | (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1970, s. 1 | |
| Power to contribute towards expenses of cemeteries | Local Government Act 1972, s. 215(6) | |
| Bus Shelters | Power to provide and maintain shelters | Local Government (Miscellaneous Provision) Act 1953, s. 4 |
| Bye Laws | Power to make bye-laws in regard to pleasure grounds | Public Health Act 1875, s. 164 |
| Cycle Parks | Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984, s.57(7) | |
| Baths and Washhouses | Public Health Act 1936, s.223 | |
| Open spaces and burial grounds | Open Spaces Act 1906, s.15 | |
| Mortuaries and post-mortem rooms | Public Health Act 1936, s.198 | |
| Charities | Duty to receive accounts of parochial charities | Charities Act 1960, s.32 |
| Clocks | Power to provide public clocks | Parish Councils Act 1957, s.2 |
| Closed Churchyards | Powers as to maintenance | Local Government Act 1972, s.215 |
| Commons and common pastures | Powers in relation to enclosure, as to regulation and management, and as to providing common pasture | Enclosure Act 1845;Local Government Act 1894, s.8(4); Smallholdings and Allotments Act 1908, s.34 |
| Conference facilities | Power to provide and encourage the use of facilities | Local Government Act 1972, s.144 |
| Community centres | Power to provide and equip buildings for use of clubs having athletic, social or educational objectives | Local Government (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1976 s.19 |
| Crime prevention | Powers to spend money on various crime prevention measures | Local Government and Rating Act 1997, s.31 |
| Drainage | Power to deal with ponds and ditches | Public Health Act 1936, s.260 |
| Education | Right to appoint school governors | Education (No.2) Act 1986, s.4 |
| Entertainment and the arts | Provision of entertainment and support of the arts | Local Government Act 1972, s.145 |
| Gifts | Power to accept | Local Government Act 1972, s.139 |
| Highways | Power to repair and maintain public footpaths and bridle-ways | Highways Act 1980, ss.43,50 |
| Power to light roads and public places | Parish Councils Act 1957, s.3; | |
| Provision of litter bins | Highways Act 1980, s.301 | |
| Power to provide parking places for vehicles, bicycles and motor-cycles | Litter Act 1983, ss.5,6 | |
| Power to enter into agreement as to dedication and widening | Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984, ss.57,63 | |
| Power to provide roadside seats and shelters, and omnibus shelters | Highways Act 1980, ss.30,72 | |
| Consent of parish council required for ending maintenance of highway at public expense, or for stopping up or diversion of highway | Parish Councils Act 1957, s.1 Highways Act 1980, ss.47,116 |
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| Power to complain to district council as to protection of rights of way and roadside wastes | Highways Act 1980, s.130 | |
| Power to provide traffic signs and other notices | Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984, s.72 | |
| Power to plant trees etc. and to maintain roadside verges | Highways Act 1980, s.96 | |
| Investments | Power to participate in schemes of collective investment | Trustee Investments Act 1961, s.11 |
| Land | Power to acquire by agreement, to appropriate, to dispose of | Power to accept gifts of land Local Government Act 1972, ss.124, 126, 127 |
| Power to accept gifts of land | Local government Act 1972, s.139 | |
| Litter | Provision of receptacles | Litter Act 1983, ss.5,6 |
| Lotteries | Powers to promote | Lotteries and Amusements Act 1976, s.7 |
| Mortuaries and post mortem rooms | Powers to provide mortuaries and post mortem rooms | Public Health Act 1936, s.198 |
| Nuisances | Power to deal with offensive ditches | Public Health Act 1936, s.260 |
| Open spaces | Power to acquire land and maintain | Public health Act 1875, s.164 Open Spaces Act 1906, ss.9 and 10 |
| Parish Property and documents | Powers to direct as to their custody | Local Government Act 1972, s.226 |
| Postal and telecommunications facilities | Power to pay the Post Office, British Telecommunications or any other public telecommunications operator any loss sustained providing post or telegraph office or telecommunication facilities | Post Office Act 1953, s.51;Telecommunications Act 1984, s.97 |
| Public buildings and village hall | Power to provide buildings for offices and for public meetings and assemblies | Local Government Act 1972, s.133 |
| Public Conveniences | Power to provide | Public Health Act 1936, s.87 |
| Recreation | Power to acquire land for or to provide recreation grounds, public walks, pleasure grounds and open spaces and to manage and control them | Public Health Act 1875, s.164 Local Government Act 1972, Sched.14 para.27 Public Health Acts Amendment Act 1890 s.44 |
| Power to provide gymnasiums, playing fields, holiday camps | Open Spaces Act 1906, ss.9 and 10 | |
| Provision of boating pools | Local Government (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1976, s.19 Public Health Act 1961, s.54 |
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| Town and Country Planning | Right to be notified of planning applications | Town and Country Planning Act 1990, Sched.1, para.8 |
| Tourism | Power to contribute to organisiations encouraging | Local Government Act 1972, s.144 |
| Traffic Calming | Powers to contribute financially to traffic calming schemes | Local Government and Rating Act 1997, s.30 |
| Transport | Powers to spend money on community transport schemes | Local Government and Rating Act 1997, s.26-29 |
| War memorials | Power to maintain, repairs, protect and adapt war memorials | War Memorials (Local Authorities’ Powers) Act 1923, s.1; as extended by Local Government Act 1948, s.133 |
| Water Supply | Power to utilise well, spring or stream and to provide facilities for obtaining water there from | Public Health Act 1936, s.125 |
