b'instance. Camden needed to exercise this duty to avoid a breach of the applicants Convention rights. This decision is important as it highlights to local authorities they should be aware the courts could consider they should use the GPOC to provide services they may not wish to. Local authorities should also think about all available powers when making decisions. The issues raised in this case could also be extended to charging and trading, if a court considered a local authority was under a duty to provide services that they should charge or trade for. Overlapping powers and restrictions 6.3 The general power of competence does not allow local authorities to do anything and everything, without restriction or prohibition. The 2011 Act states that the general power is not limited by the existence of any other power of the authority which (to any extent) overlaps the general power. The Secretary of State has a reserved power to make orders amending, repealing, revoking or dis-applying any such statutory provision to remove or reduce such overlap. Given there has never been a power as wide as the new general competence power it is hard to envisage what overlapping powers may exist with it, especially as well-being powers have been repealed (in England at least). Care needs to be taken here as the 2011 Act sets out some statutory boundaries in section 2. These provisions make it clear that pre-commencement powers (ie primary or secondary legislation which contain prohibitions, restrictions or other limitations) will apply also to the exercise of the general power so far as it is overlapped by the pre-commencement power. The general power does not enable an authority to do anything which the authority is unable to so by virtue of a pre-commencement limitation or anything which the authority is unable to do by virtue of a post-commencement limitation which expressly applies to the general power, to all the authorities powers or to all the authorities powers but with exceptions that do not include the general powers. In short, this means that instead of searching out enabling powers (as previously), such powers are now assumed to exist if what is proposed can be done by an individual. However, local authorities will still need to search and determine whether overlapping powers exist. To the extent they do, if such powers contain restrictions in legislation which existed prior to commencement of the general power they must follow such restrictions. Legislation enacted after commencement will only apply to the general power if they are expressed to do so. The general power does not confer power to make or alter arrangements for the conduct of local authority business as set out in Part 6 of the 1972 Act (arrangements for the discharge of functions by committees, joint committees, officers, etc). The general power does not confer power to make or alter arrangements made under Part 1A of the 2000 Act (arrangements for local authority governance in England), nor does it extend to conferring power to make or alter any contracting out arrangements. 68'