London Government Act 1963

Part I — Local Government in and around Greater London

London boroughs

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• (1) There shall be established new administrative areas, to be known as London boroughs, which shall comprise the areas respectively described (by reference to existing administrative areas) in column 2 of Part I of Schedule 1 to this Act; and in this . . . Act—

• (a) any reference to an inner London borough shall be construed as a reference to one of the London boroughs numbered from 1 to 12 in the said Part I;

• (b) any reference to an outer London borough shall be construed as a reference to one of the London boroughs numbered from 13 to 32 in the said Part I.

• (2) If in the case of any London borough, on representations in that behalf made to the Privy Council by the Minister, Her Majesty by the advice of Her Privy Council thinks fit to grant a charter of incorporation of the inhabitants of that borough, Her Majesty may by that charter—

• (a) make provision with respect to the name of the borough; and

• (b) subject to the provisions of this Act, make any provision such as may be made by virtue of section 131 of the Local Government Act 1933 by a charter granted under Part VI of that Act;

and any charter which purports to be granted in pursuance of the Royal prerogative and this subsection shall be deemed to be valid and within the powers of this Act and Her Majesty’s prerogative and the validity thereof shall not be questioned in any legal proceeding whatever.

• (3) In the case of any London borough whose inhabitants are not incorporated by such a charter as is referred to in the last foregoing subsection, provision for their incorporation shall be made by the Minister by order (hereafter in this Act referred to as an “incorporation order”) which may include any such provision as is mentioned in paragraph (a) or (b) of that subsection.

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• (5) Before the Minister makes as respects a London borough either representations under subsection (2) of this section for the grant of a charter or an incorporation order under subsection (3) thereof, the Minister or, as may be appropriate, the Secretary of State shall cause such notices to be given and such, if any, inquiries to be held with respect to the matters to be dealt with by the charter or order as may appear to the Minister or, as the case may be, the Secretary of State to be expedient.

• (6) The Municipal Corporations Act 1882 shall apply to every London borough . . . , the expression “borough” when used in relation to local government in any enactment whether passed before or after this Act . . . shall except where the context otherwise requires (and except in particular in the expressions “county borough” and “non-county borough”) include a London borough; . . .

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Greater London and the Greater London Council

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• (1) The area comprising the areas of the London boroughs, the City and the Temples shall constitute an administrative area to be known as Greater London.

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• (4) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Local government areas in and around Greater London

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General provisions as to exercise in Greater London of existing local authority functions

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• (1) Subject to any provision to the contrary effect made by, or by any instrument made under, this Act or any other Act passed during the same session as this Act . . . , and without prejudice to any express provision so made, the provisions of this section (being provisions designed to confer on the councils of London boroughs as respects their boroughs and on the Common Council as respects the City the functions exercisable by the councils of county boroughs as respects their boroughs or by the existing London county council as respects the metropolitan boroughs or, as the case may be, the City) shall have effect as from 1st April 1965 as respects any enactment (hereafter in this section referred to as an “existing enactment”) contained in any public general Act passed before this Act or in any other such Act passed during the same session as this Act.

• (2) Subject to subsection (7) of this section, where any existing enactment refers to, or to the councils of, county boroughs, then—

• (a) if it also refers in the same context to, or to the councils of, metropolitan boroughs, any reference in that enactment in that context to, or to the council of, a metropolitan borough shall be construed as a reference to, or to the council of, a London borough;

• (b) if it also refers (or, but for section 3 (1) (b) of this Act, would have referred) in the same context to the London county council (whether expressly or by virtue of a reference to councils of counties) but not to councils of metropolitan boroughs, any reference in that enactment in that context to a county borough or the council thereof shall be construed as including a reference to a London borough or the council thereof and, where that enactment extends to the City but does not refer to the Common Council, as including also a reference to the City or the Common Council.

• (3) Any reference in any existing enactment which, by virtue of any other existing enactment passed subsequently thereto, falls to be construed as a reference to authorities of a particular class shall be deemed for the purposes of subsection (2) of this section to be a reference to authorities of that class.

• (4) Any existing enactment to the effect that any provision does not apply or refer, or applies or refers only, to the administrative county of London or to that county other than the City or other than the City and the Temples shall have effect as if it provided that the provision in question does not apply or refer, or, as the case may be, applies or refers only, to Greater London other than the outer London boroughs, or other than those boroughs and the City, or other than those boroughs, the City and the Temples, as the case may be.

• (5) Where, under any existing enactment which by virtue of subsection (4) of this section applies to Greater London other than the outer London boroughs or other than those boroughs and the City with or without the Temples, any functions were exercisable immediately before 1st April 1965 as respects a metropolitan borough by the London county council or by the council of that borough or as respects the City by the London county council, those functions shall be exercisable as respects an inner London borough by the council of that borough or, as the case may be, as respects the City by the Common Council.

• (6) In any existing enactment which by virtue of subsection (4) of this section applies to the outer London boroughs but not to the rest of Greater London, any reference to, or to the council of, a county borough shall be construed as including a reference to, or to the council of, an outer London borough.

• (7) Without prejudice to any exclusion by virtue of subsection (1) of this section and to any amendment of the enactment in question by or under any subsequent provision of this Act, subsection (2) of this section shall not apply to any existing enactment contained in—

• (a) the Local Government Act of 1888, 1929, 1933 or 1958; or

• (b) the enactments to which section 40 of this Act applies or would apply but for the proviso to subsection (4) of that section; or

• (c) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

• (d) any enactment relating to rating and valuation in England and Wales; or

• (e) the Town and Country Planning Act 1962; or

• (f) any of the Acts amended by Schedule 5, 6, 8 or 13 to this Act;

and this section shall not apply to any enactment contained in an Act passed with respect only to the whole or part of the existing county of London.

Delegation of functions in Greater London

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• (1) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

• (2) The Common Council and the council of any London borough which is adjacent to the City may agree together for the discharge by that borough council, as agent for the Common Council, of such of the functions of the Common Council as may be specified in the agreement.

• (3) Without prejudice to any other provision of this or any other Act, any of the following authorities, that is to say, . . . the London borough councils , the Common Council, . . . , an authority established by Part I, II, III, IV, or V of the Waste Regulation and Disposal (Authorities) Order 1985 and the London Fire Commissioner may, for the better performance of their respective functions, agree with any one or more of the others of those authorities and any other local authority within the meaning of the Local Government Act 1933 whose area is contiguous with any part of Greater London for—

• (a) the undertaking by one party for another of any administrative, clerical, professional, scientific or technical services;

• (b) the use or maintenance by one party of any vehicle, plant, equipment or apparatus of another party and, if it appears convenient, the services of any staff employed in connection therewith;

• (c) the carrying out of works of maintenance by one party in connection with land or buildings for the maintenance of which another party is responsible,

on such terms as may be agreed between them; and in this subsection the expression “maintenance” includes minor renewals, improvements and extensions.

Alteration of boundaries of or within Greater London

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Promotion of Bills with respect to local government functions in Greater London

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Supplementary provisions to Part I

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• (1) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

• (2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Part II — Road Traffic, Highways and Motor Vehicles

General duty of Greater London Council with respect to road traffic and abolition of London Traffic Area and Traffic Advisory Committee

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• (3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

• (4) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

• (6) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Traffic regulation in Greater London

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Experimental traffic schemes

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• (1) The Greater London Council as well as the Minister of Transport shall have power to make an experimental traffic order under section 28 of the Road Traffic Act 1962 with respect to any road in Greater London, being—

• (a) a road other than a trunk road ; or

• (b) a trunk road with respect to which that Minister has consented to the making of the order in question.

• (2) The Minister of Transport shall not make an order under the said section 28 with respect to any road in Greater London which is not a trunk road except for the purpose of—

• (a) the revocation or variation, after giving notice to the Greater London Council, of any order by that Council under that section ; or

• (b) securing the object of any direction given to that Council by that Minister by virtue of subsection (3) of this section with which that Council have failed to comply.

• (3) The provisions of section 10(6) and (7) of this Act shall have effect for the purposes of subsection (1) of this section as if—

• (a) any reference in those provisions to, or to an order made by the Greater London Council under, subsection (1) of that section were a reference to, or to an order made by that Council by virtue of, subsection (1) of this section;

• (b) any reference to an order of the Minister of Transport under section 34 of the Road Traffic Act 1960 were a reference to an order of that Minister under the said section 28.

• (4) An order made by the Greater London Council under the said section 28 may include provision whereby a specified officer, or some person authorised in that behalf by a specified officer, of the Council may, if it appears to that officer or person essential in the interests of the expeditious, convenient and safe movement of traffic and after consulting with the appropriate commissioner of police and giving such public notice as the Minister of Transport may direct, modify or suspend the order or any provision thereof.

• (5) Before the Greater London Council make any order under the said section 28 they shall—

• (a) except where the order is made in pursuance of a direction by the Minister of Transport by virtue of subsection (3) of this section, consult with the appropriate commissioner of police ; and

• (b) give such public notice as that Minister may direct.

• (6) The Minister of Transport may repay to the Greater London Council any expenses incurred by that Council in connection with any order made by them under the said section 28.

• (7) The powers with respect to the carrying out of experimental traffic schemes conferred by section 35 of the Road Traffic Act 1960 on the commissioner of police of the metropolis shall be exercisable only within Greater London; and the authority for the giving of any consent or direction under subsection (1) or (5) of that section shall be the Greater London Council instead of the Minister of Transport; but the Greater London Council shall not give their consent to any such scheme affecting a trunk road except with the agreement of that Minister ; and in the case of any particular scheme that Minister may after consultation with the Greater London Council direct that Council to consent thereto within a specified period or to withhold their consent therefrom.

Powers in respect of traffic signs, etc.

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• (1) The Minister of Transport or the Greater London Council may, to such extent as that Minister or Council may consider necessary in connection with any order under section 34 of the Road Traffic Act 1960, section 10 (1) of this Act or section 28 of the Road Traffic Act 1962 made or proposed to be made by that Minister or, as the case may be, that Council—

• (a) exercise as respects any road in Greater London which is not a trunk road any powers exercisable by the highway authority for that road in connection with the placing of traffic signs on or near that road in pursuance of section 52 of the said Act of 1960 and affix any such sign to any lamp-post or other structure in the highway, whether or not belonging to that Minister or Council;

• (b) authorise or require the highway authority for any such road to place in the carriageway such bollards or other obstructions as that Minister or Council may consider appropriate for preventing the passage of vehicles, or vehicles of any class or description, at any point at which their passage (whether in any direction or in one direction only) is prohibited by any such order as aforesaid and to maintain and light those obstructions;

• (c) authorise or require any highway authority to remove any obstruction placed by that authority in pursuance of an authorisation or requirement under the last foregoing paragraph.

• (2) To such extent as the Minister of Transport or, as the case may be, the Greater London Council may consider necessary in connection with any order such as is mentioned in subsection (1) of this section, whether made or proposed to be made by that Minister or by that Council, that Minister may do with respect to any trunk road, or as the case may be that Council may do with respect to any metropolitan road, anything which the authority making or proposing to make the order might under subsection (1)(b) of this section require to be done with respect to any other road by the highway authority therefor.

• (3) The Greater London Council or, to such extent as the Minister of Transport may consider necessary in connection with any order made or proposed to be made by him under the said section 34 or 28, that Minister may give to the highway authority for any road in Greater London which is not a trunk road such directions with respect to the adjustment, modification or replacement of, or of any part of, the mechanism of traffic signs, being light signals controlled by that authority, as that Council or Minister may consider expedient in the interests of the movement of traffic.

• (4) If a highway authority fail to comply with any requirement or direction under subsection (1) or (3) of this section the Minister of Transport or, as the case may be, the Greater London Council may carry out the work required by the requirement or direction, and the expense incurred by that Minister or Council in so doing shall be recoverable summarily as a civil debt from the authority.

• (5) As respects any traffic sign placed by the Minister of Transport or the Greater London Council in the exercise of the powers conferred by subsection (1)(a) of this section, it shall be the duty of that Council—

• (a) to take such steps to maintain, and to make such alteration of, that sign as may be necessary or expedient in connection with the order in connection with which it was placed ;

• (b) to remove that sign upon that order ceasing to have effect;

and that Minister may recover from that Council summarily as a civil debt any expenses incurred by him by virtue of the said subsection (1)(a).

• (6) As respects any road in Greater London other than a trunk road the Greater London Council shall be the competent authority for the purposes of section 22 of the said Act of 1960 with respect to signs for indicating speed restrictions.

• (7) References in this section to a highway authority include references to any person who, not being a highway authority, is responsible for the maintenance of a road.

• (8) The power of the Minister of Transport under section 63 of the Road Traffic Act 1960 to make advances towards expenses incurred in relation to traffic signs shall be exercisable with respect to any expenses incurred by the Greater London Council-in relation to the erection, maintenance, alteration or removal of traffic signs or by virtue of subsection (2) of this section; and the said section 63 shall apply in relation to any such obstruction as is mentioned in subsection (1) of this section as it applies in relation to traffic signs.

Parking accommodation in Greater London

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• (1) Section 81 of the Road Traffic Act 1960 (which relates to the power of local authorities to provide parking places) shall extend to the whole of Greater London and to the. use as a parking place of any place other than a road in Greater London ; and the Greater London Council as respects the whole of Greater London, the council of a London borough as respects the borough, and the Common Council as respects the City, shall be the local authority for the purposes of that section; but the Greater London Council shall not exercise their powers under that section—

• (a) as respects any London borough, without the consent of the council of that borough, or

• (b) as respects the City, without the consent of the Common Council,

except with the consent of the Minister of Transport.

• (2) The functions as respects Greater London conferred on the Minister of Transport by section 85 (1) and (2) of the said Act of 1960 (which relate to the designation on the application of local authorities of parking places on highways where charges are made), the functions of that Minister under section 85(5) of that Act (which relates to the designation of parking places without an application by the local authority) and, in respect of any site in Greater London, the supplementary functions of that Minister under sections 86 and 87 of that Act and section 3 of the Road Traffic and Roads Improvement Act 1960 shall be exercisable by the Greater London Council (hereafter in this section referred to as “the Council”) as well as by that Minister ; and that Minister—

• (a) subject to subsection (3) of this section, may after consultation with the Council direct the Council—

• (i) to make under any provision of the said sections 85, 86, 87 and 3 (hereafter in this section referred to as “the relevant provisions”) such order as may be specified in the direction in respect of any site in Greater London so specified to come into force before the expiration of a period so specified, being in the case of an order under 'the said section 85 (1) an order either in the form applied for by the local authority or in that form with specified modifications ; or

• (ii) not to make under any of the relevant provisions a particular order which has been applied for or proposed;

• (b) shall not himself make an order under any of the relevant provisions except for the purpose of securing the object of any direction given to the Council under paragraph (a)(i) of this subsection with which the Council have failed to comply ;

• (c) may, after giving notice of his intention to the Council and any other person appearing to that Minister to be likely to be concerned, by order revoke or vary any order made by the Council under any of the relevant provisions.

• (3) Before giving any direction under subsection (2)(a)(i) of this section—

• (a) in the case of a direction to make with or without modifications—

• (i) an order applied for under the said section 85 (1); or

• (ii) an order under the said section 85(5) or 3(4) which has already been proposed by the Council,

the Minister of Transport shall consider any objections made to the order applied for or proposed;

• (b) in the case of a direction to make an order under the said section 85(5) or 3(4) which has not already been proposed by the Council, that Minister instead of the council shall comply with the requirements of Part II of Schedule 10 to the Road Traffic Act 1960 in like manner as if the order were to be made by him instead of by the Council;

• (c) in the case of a direction to make any order in the form of an order applied for by a local authority or proposed by the Council but with modifications which appear to that Minister to affect substantially the character of the order, that Minister shall take such steps as appear to him to be sufficient and reasonably practicable for informing any local authority concerned and any other person likely to be concerned.

• (4) Any application by a local authority in Greater London for an order under the said section 85(1) shall be made to the Council and not to the Minister of Transport, but a London borough council shall not make such an application in respect of a site on a trunk road except with the consent of that Minister and, for the purposes of subsection (2)(b) of this section, any such application made to the Council shall be deemed to have been made to that Minister.

• (5) In relation to an order of the Council—

• (a) any reference in the relevant provisions or in the said Schedule 10 to the Minister of Transport (other than the reference in the said section 86(2)(a)) shall be construed as a reference to the Council;

• (b) the said section 85 (5) shall have effect as if paragraph (a) and, in paragraph (b), the words “with the consent of the Treasury”, the words from “or the” to “Council” where first occurring and the words “or Council ” were omitted ; and

• (c) the said section 3 (4) shall have effect as if the reference to section 90(3) and (5) of the Road Traffic Act 1960 were omitted;

and in relation to parking places designated by virtue of the said section 85(5) by an order of the Council, references in sections 85(3), 86 to 89 and 232(2)(a)(ii) of the Road Traffic Act 1960 and sections 6 and 15 of the Road Traffic and Roads Improvement Act 1960 to the local authority shall be construed as references to the Council.

• (6) Where—

• (a) the Council make an order under any of the relevant provisions in pursuance of a direction under subsection (2)(a)(i) of this section; or

• (b) the Minister of Transport makes an order under any of the relevant provisions for the purpose specified in subsection (2)(b) of this section; or

• (c) that Minister makes an order under subsection (2)(c) of this section ; or

• (d) that Minister enters into an agreement under the said section 85(5)(b) for the transfer of a parking place designated by an order of that Minister,

the powers of the Council to vary or revoke orders made by them under the relevant provisions shall extend to the variation or revocation of any such order as aforesaid notwithstanding that it is made by, or by direction of, that Minister but, except with the consent of (that Minister—

• (i) any order such as is mentioned in paragraph (a), (b), (c) or (d) of this subsection shall not be revoked or varied by the Council, and

• (ii) where an order of the Council under the said section 85 with respect to parking places on any length of highway has been varied or revoked by that Minister by virtue of the said subsection (2)(c), the Council shall not make a further order under the said section 85 as respects that length of highway,

within twelve months of the making of the order referred to in paragraph (a), (b) or (c) or the transfer referred to in paragraph (d), as the case may be, of this subsection.

• (7) The Minister of Transport may give directions to the Council, either generally or with respect to any particular case or class of cases, as to the procedure to be followed in connection with—

• (a) any application to the Council for an order under the said section 85 (1);

• (b) the making of any order by the Council under any of the relevant provisions,

including directions modifying the provisions of the said Schedule 10 in their application to, or applying those provisions with modifications to, any such order of the Council; but, except in the case of an order revoking and re-enacting the provisions of a previous order, whether or not made by the same authority, no direction given by virtue of this subsection shall reduce the opportunities afforded by the said Schedule 10 to object to any application or proposal.

• (8) In the Road Traffic and Roads Improvement Act 1960, the following provisions shall cease to have effect, that is to say—

• (a) so much of section 4 (1) as limits the duration of the powers conferred by the said section 85 (5);

• (b) so much of section 4 (2) as limits the duration of the power conferred thereby on the Minister of Transport to make grants towards the provision and maintenance of off-street parking places;

• (c) section 10 (which relates to the provision by that Minister of temporary parking accommodation in Greater London).

Other road traffic functions in Greater London

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• (5) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

• (6) In the Road Traffic Act 1960 —

• (a) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

• (b) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

• (c) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

• (d) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

• (e) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Supplementary provisions as to road traffic

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Highway authorities

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Metropolitan roads

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• (1) The following shall be metropolitan roads, that is to say—

• (a) subject to subsection (2) of this section, the highways specified in Schedule 7 to this Act;

• (b) subject as aforesaid, any highway constructed or proposed to be constructed by the Greater London Council the construction of which as a metropolitan road has been approved by the Minister of Transport;

• (c) any other highway or proposed highway which is for the time being designated as a metropolitan road by an order under subsection (2) of this section or by an order under section 7 of the Highways Act 1959 directing that the highway shall cease to be a trunk road.

• (2) Subject to subsection (3) of this section, the Minister of Transport may, on the application of the Greater London Council, a London borough council or the Common Council, by order designate as a metropolitan road any highway or proposed highway specified in the order or direct that any highway or proposed highway so specified which is for the time being a metropolitan road shall cease to be such a road.

• (3) The council by whom an application for an order under subsection (2) of this section is made shall send a copy of the application to any other council who, if the order were to be made, would become or cease to be the highway authority for the highway in question and, before determining whether or not to make the order, the Minister of Transport shall consider any representation which any such other council may make to him with reference to the making of the order and, if so requested by any such other council, shall hold a local inquiry.

• (4) Where a highway in a London borough or the City becomes (otherwise than by virtue of subsection (1)(a) of this section) or ceases to be a metropolitan road, the council of the borough or the Common Council, as the case may be, and the Greater London Council may agree for the transfer to the new highway authority for the highway of such property and liabilities relating thereto of the former highway authority therefor on such terms and conditions as may be specified in the agreement.

• (5) The drains belonging to a highway which is for the time being a metropolitan road shall vest in the Greater London Council and, where any other drain or sewer was, at the date when the highway became a metropolitan road, used for any purpose in connection with the drainage of that highway, that Council shall continue to have the right of using that drain or sewer for that purpose; and any difference arising under this subsection between the Greater London Council and a London borough council or the Common Council as to the council in whom a drain is vested, or as to the use of a drain or sewer, shall, if either council so elect, be referred to and determined by the Minister.

• (6) An order—

• (a) under subsection (2) of this section ; or

• (b) under section 7 of the Highways Act 1959 directing that a highway shall cease to be a trunk road and designating that highway as a metropolitan road,

may be made before 1st April 1965 so as to come into force at any time not earlier than that date.

Delegation or transfer of functions with respect to metropolitan roads

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• (1) The Greater London Council may agree with the council of any London borough or the Common Council for the delegation to the borough council or Common Council of any of the functions of the Greater London Council with respect to the maintenance and improvement of, and other dealing with—

• (a) the whole or any part of so much of any metropolitan road as lies within the borough or, as the case may be, the City;

• (b) any land which does not form part of a metropolitan road but has been acquired by the Greater London Council in connection with such a road under section 214(5) or (6) or 215(2) of the Highways Act 1959.

• (2) A London borough council or the Common Council shall, in the discharge of any functions delegated by virtue of subsection (1) of this section, act as agents for the Greater London Council; and it shall be a condition of the delegation—

• (a) that the works to be executed and the expenditure to be incurred by the borough council or the Common Council in the discharge of the delegated functions shall be subject to the approval of the Greater London Council; and

• (b) that the borough council or Common Council shall comply with any requirement of the Greater London Council as to the manner in which, and the persons by whom, any works are to be carried out, and with any general directions of the Greater London Council as to the terms of contracts to be entered into for the purposes of the discharge of the delegated functions; and

• (c) that any such works shall be completed to the satisfaction of the Greater London Council;

and, if at any time the Greater London Council are satisfied on the report of some officer of the Council or other person appointed by them for the purpose that the road or land with respect to which the functions are delegated is not in proper repair or condition, they may give notice to the borough council or Common Council requiring them to place it in proper repair or condition and, if the notice is not complied with within a reasonable time, may themselves do anything which seems to them necessary to place it in proper repair or condition.

• (3) A delegation to a London borough council or the Common Council under subsection (1) of this section may be determined by notice given to that council by the Greater London Council, or the functions so delegated may be relinquished by notice given by the borough council or Common Council to the Greater London Council; but—

• (a) the determination or relinquishment shall not take effect until 1st April in the calendar year next following that in which the notice is given; and

• (b) such a notice shall not be given during the last three months of a calendar year.

• (4) The Greater London Council may enter into an agreement with the council of a London borough or the Common Council for the construction of a metropolitan road in the borough or, as the case may be, in the City, or for the carrying out by the borough council or Common Council of any particular work of improvement of, or other dealing with, such a road or part thereof or such land as is mentioned in subsection (1) of this section; and subsection (2) of this section shall apply to the discharge of the functions of the borough council or Common Council under any such agreement and to the conditions to be included in the agreement as it applies to the discharge of functions delegated by virtue of the said subsection (1) and to the conditions to be attached to any such delegation.

• (5) The council of a London borough or the Common Council shall, if so required by the Greater London Council, undertake the maintenance of any metropolitan road within the borough or, as the case may be, within the City in consideration of such payments by the Greater London Council as may from time to time be agreed between them or, in default of such agreement, as may be determined by the Minister of Transport; and while that requirement remains in force the borough council or Common Council shall have the like powers and be subject to the like duties and liabilities with respect to the maintenance of that road as if they were the highway authority therefor.

• (6) Plant or materials belonging to a council by whom functions fall to be exercised by virtue of a delegation, agreement or requirement under this section may be used by them for the purposes of the exercise of those functions, subject to the terms of any delegation or of any agreement between that council and the Greater London Council.

• (7) Nothing in this section shall be construed as limiting the power of the Greater London Council to enter into and carry into effect agreements with any person for any purpose connected with the construction, improvement or maintenance of, or other dealing with, a metropolitan road or otherwise connected with any functions of that Council relating to metropolitan roads; but no such agreement shall provide for the delegation of any powers or duties of the Greater London Council except in accordance with the provisions of this section.

Modifications to Public Utilities Street Works Act 1950

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Functions as to motor vehicles and driving licences

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Part III — Housing and Planning

Housing

Housing powers in Greater London

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Record of need, and facilities for exchange, of housing accommodation

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Transfer of land held for housing purposes

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• (1) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

• (2) On 1st April 1965 there shall vest in the council of each London borough all land which immediately before that date was held for the purposes of functions as such a local authority as aforesaid—

• (a) by any council to whom section 3 (1) (b) of this Act applies whose area falls wholly within that London borough;

• (b) in the case of land within the London borough, by the Chigwell urban district council.

• (3) The Minister shall if so requested by both the parties concerned, or if so requested by one of those parties may after consultation with the other of those parties, or if he thinks fit after consultation with both parties may without any such request, by order provide for the transfer—

• (a) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

• (b) from . . . the council of a London borough to the local authority . . . for the purposes of the Housing Act 1957 or to a housing association of any housing accommodation for the time being vested in that council, being, . . . housing accommodation outside that borough;

and any such order shall include such terms as may have been agreed between the two parties concerned or, in default of such agreement, determined by the Minister and provision for arbitration as to the value of the property transferred; and in the case of an order may by virtue of paragraph (b) of this subsection—

• (i) the said terms may include the retention by the transferor of a right to nominate tenants to the transferred accommodation and, where such a right is retained, provision for the payment of contributions by the transferor to the transferee; and

• (ii) the order shall be subject to annulment in pursuance of a resolution of either House of Parliament.

• (4) The Minister may at any time after 1st April 1965 require any London borough to submit to him a programme for any transfers of housing accommodation vested in that borough such as are mentioned in subsection (3)(b) of this section which they propose to make and have not yet made.

• (5) References in this section to land or housing accommodation shall be construed as including references to any other property held in connection therewith and any rights or liabilities attaching thereto.

• (6) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Application of Town and Country Planning Act 1962 to Greater London

Local planning authorities

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Development plans

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• (1) In the application of the Planning Act to Greater London, sections 4(1) and (5) and 6(1) and (2) (which relate to the submission or amendment of development plans) shall not apply but the provisions of this and the next following section shall have effect in place thereof.

• (2) Subject to the provisions of any order under section 84 of this Act, any development plans under the Planning Act operative on 31st March 1965 which relate, or so far as they relate, to any part of Greater London shall together constitute as from 1st April 1965 the initial development plan for Greater London.

• (3) The Greater London Council shall cause to be carried out a survey of Greater London and shall, within such period as the Minister may allow, submit to the Minister a report of that survey and a general development plan for Greater London, to be known as the Greater London development plan, which, subject to any regulations made (by virtue of section 27(5)(e) of this Act) under section 10 of the Planning Act, shall lay down considerations of general policy with respect to the use of land in the various parts of Greater London, including in particular guidance as to the future road system, and may make any necessary consequential modifications in the initial development plan aforesaid; and as from the date when the Greater London development plan becomes operative, that plan and the initial development plan aforesaid with any modifications therein made by the Greater London development plan shall together constitute the interim development plan for Greater London.

• (4) Within such period as the Minister may allow after the Greater London development plan becomes operative, each London borough council shall as respects their borough, and the Common Council shall as respects the City, carry out on behalf of the Greater London Council such further survey, if any, as the borough council or Common Council may consider necessary or as the Greater London Council may direct, and submit to the Greater London Council a report on any such further survey and a local development plan which, subject to any such regulations as aforesaid, shall restate as respects the borough or, as the case may be, the City the relevant provisions of the initial development plan aforesaid as modified by the Greater London development plan with any alterations and additions appearing to them necessary or expedient which are consistent with the Greater London development plan ; and, without prejudice to section 27 (1) of this Act, the Greater London Council shall within such further period as the Minister may allow forward any such reports and those local development plans to the Minister with any observations thereon by that Council.

• (5) The development plan for the purposes of the Planning Act for any London borough or, as the case may be, the City shall be the following, as amended from time to time by virtue of any provision of the two next following sections, that is to say—

• (a) as from 1st April 1965 until the Greater London development plan becomes operative, the relevant provisions of the initial development plan aforesaid ;

• (b) as from the date when the Greater London development plan becomes operative until the date when the local development plan submitted by the borough council or Common Council becomes operative, the relevant provisions of the interim development plan aforesaid;

• (c) as from the date when the said local development plan becomes operative, that plan together with the Greater London development plan ;

and accordingly section 101 (5) of the Planning Act shall not apply to Greater London.

Amendment of development plans

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• (1) The Greater London Council shall from time to time cause fresh surveys of Greater London to be carried out and, not less than once in every five years after the approval of the Greater London development plan by the Minister, submit to the Minister a report of any such surveys together with proposals for any alterations or additions to that plan which appear to that Council to be required having regard to those surveys.

• (2) Without prejudice to the provisions of the foregoing subsection, the Greater London Council may at any time, and shall at any time when so directed by the Minister, submit to the Minister proposals for such alterations or additions as appear to the Council to be expedient or as may be required by that direction—

• (a) in the case of proposals made before the date of the Minister's approval of the Greater London development plan, to the initial development plan referred to in section 25 (2) of this Act; or

• (b) in the case of proposals made after that date, to the Greater London development plan.

• (3) After the Greater London development plan has become operative, the council of any London borough or the Common Council may at any time, and shall at any time when so directed by the Minister or, with the approval of the Minister, by the Greater London Council, after carrying out on behalf of the Greater London Council such, if any, fresh survey of the borough or, as the case may be, the City as may appear to the borough council or Common Council to be expedient or as may be required by that direction, submit to the Greater London Council proposals for such alterations or additions as may appear expedient or as may be so required—

• (a) in the case of proposals made before the date of the Minister's approval of their local development plan under section 25(4) of this Act, to the initial development plan aforesaid as modified by the Greater London development plan ; or

• (b) in the case of proposals made after that date, to that local development plan;

and, without prejudice to section 27(1) of this Act, the Greater London Council shall, within such time as the Minister may allow, forward any such proposals to the Minister together with any observations thereon by that Council.

Supplementary provisions as to development plans

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• (1) If any local development plan submitted to the Greater London Council under section 25(4) of this Act, or any proposal so submitted under section 26(3) of this Act. contains any provision which in the opinion of the Greater London Council involves a departure from the Greater London development plan, that Council may, if they think fit, require the council submitting the plan or proposal to reconsider that provision within such period as may be specified in the requirement, and thereupon—

• (a) unless within the period so specified the submitting council agree that the provision involves such a departure, the question shall be referred to the Minister for decision;

• (b) if the submitting council agree as aforesaid, or if on such a reference to the Minister the Minister decides that the provision involves such a departure, the Greater London Council may if they think fit cause that provision to be struck out from the local development plan or proposal for the purpose of its consideration by the Minister;

• (c) if on such a reference to the Minister the Minister decides that the provision does not involve such a departure, the provision shall be included in the local development plan or proposal for the purpose of its consideration by the Minister, but the Minister, if so required by the Greater London Council, shall afford that Council an opportunity to make further observations thereon.

• (2) Any survey under section 25(3) or 26(1) of this Act shall, unless for special reasons the Greater London Council decide to carry it out themselves, be carried out on behalf of that Council by the London borough councils and the Common Council as respects their respective areas; and subject to subsection (6) of this section any such survey and any survey under section 25(4) or 26(3) of this Act shall be carried out on such lines as the Greater London Council may direct.

• (3) The Greater London Council, before preparing the Greater London development plan or any proposals under section 26(1) or (2) of this Act, shall consult with the London borough councils and the Common Council or, in the case of any such proposals, with such of those councils as are affected by the proposals, and before submitting the plan or proposals to the Minister shall give to each of those councils an opportunity to make representations with respect to the plan or proposals and shall consider any representations so made.

• (4) A London borough council or the Common Council—

• (a) when preparing their local development plan under section 25(4) or any proposal under section 26(3) of this Act shall give to the Greater London Council any information which that Council may require with respect to the matters to be included in that plan or proposal; and

• (b) before submitting that plan or proposal to the Greater London Council shall give that Council an opportunity to make representations in the light of that information and shall consider any representations so made.

• (5) The following provisions of Part II of the Planning Act, that is to say—

• (a) section 4(2), (3) and (4) (which relate to the contents of development plans);

• (b) section 5 (which relates to the approval of development plans by the Minister);

• (c) section 6(3) and (4) (which relate to proposals for amendments to development plans);

• (d) section 7 (which confers additional powers on the Minister with respect to development plans);

• (e) section 10(2), (3) and (5) (which contain supplementary provisions as to development plans);

• (f) section 11 (which relates to the publication and date of operation of development plans),

shall apply for the purposes of sections 25 and 26 of this Act with the modifications specified in subsection (7) of this section as if any report or plan submitted or forwarded under section 25(3) or (4) of (this Act were a report or plan submitted under section 4(1) of that Act and any report or proposal submitted or forwarded under section 26 of this Act were a report or proposal submitted under section 6 of that Act.

• (6) Section 10(4) of the Planning Act shall not apply to Greater London but, subject to any express provision contained in or having effect by virtue of this or either of the two last foregoing sections, the Minister may give directions—

• (a) to the Greater London Council with respect to the form and content of any directions by the Greater London Council under subsection (2) of this section ;

• (b) to that Council, to any London borough council and to the Common Council—

• (i) with respect to the procedure for the carrying out of the functions exercisable under or by virtue of those sections by any of those councils ; and

• (ii) with respect to the furnishing to the Minister by those councils of information required for the purpose of the functions exercisable under or by virtue of those sections by the Minister.

• (7) In the application by virtue of subsection (5) of this section of the provisions of the Planning Act hereinafter mentioned—

• (a) any reference in section 4(3) or (4) to the opinion of the local planning authority shall be construed as a reference to the opinion of either the Greater London Council or the council of the London borough in which the land in question is situated (or, if it is situated in the City, the Common Council);

• (b) the reference in section 7(1)(b) to the local planning authority shall be construed as a reference to any of the following councils, that is to say, the Greater London Council, the London borough councils and the Common Council, by whom there fall to be taken the steps necessary to enable the plan, report or proposal in question to be submitted within the period in question;

• (c) the reference in section 7(4) to the preceding provisions of Part II of the Planning Act shall be construed as including a reference to the provisions of sections 25 and 26 of this Act and subsections (1) to (4) of this section;

• (d) any reference in section 10(2), (3) or (5) to objections or representations shall be construed as a reference only to objections or representations arising from—

• (i) any addition, modification or alteration to the initial development plan referred to in section 25(2) of this Act which is proposed to be effected by the Greater London development plan or which is proposed under section 26(2)(a) of this Act;

• (ii) any addition or alteration to the initial development plan aforesaid as modified by the Greater London development plan which is proposed to be effected by any local development plan forwarded to the Minister under section 25(4) of this Act or which is proposed under section 26(3)(a) thereof;

• (iii) any alteration or addition to the Greater London development plan proposed under section 26 (1) or (2)(b) of this Act;

• (iv) any alteration or addition to such a local development plan as aforesaid proposed under section 26(3)(b) of this Act;

• (e) the reference in section 11(1) to the local planning authority shall be construed—

• (i) in relation to any amendment of the initial development plan aforesaid made before the Greater London development plan becomes operative or made by the Greater London development plan, as a reference to the Greater London Council;

• (ii) in relation to any amendment of the provisions with respect to any London borough or the City of the initial development plan aforesaid as modified by the Greater London development plan, as a reference to the council of that borough or, as the case may be, the Common Council;

• (iii) in relation to the Greater London development plan, as a reference to the Greater London Council;

• (iv) in relation to a local development plan under section 25(4) of this Act, as a reference to the council of the London borough in question or, as the case may be, the Common Council.

Buildings of special architectural or historic interest

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• (1) The Minister shall cause a copy, certified by or on his behalf to be a true copy, of so much of, and of any amendment to, any list of buildings of special architectural or historic interest compiled or approved by him under section 32 of the Planning Act as relates to any London borough or the City to be deposited—

• (a) with the cleric of the borough council or, as the case may be, the town clerk of the City ; and

• (b) with the clerk to the Greater London Council,

and any such copy shall be so deposited, in the case of a list compiled or approved or amendment made before 1st April 1965, as soon as may be after that date or, in any other case, as soon as may be after the list has been compiled or approved or the amendment has been made; and any such copy deposited with the clerk of a London borough council or the town clerk of the City shall be registered in the register of local land charges in such manner as may be prescribed by rules made for the purposes of the said section 32 under section 15(6) of the Land Charges Act 1925 by the proper officer so prescribed :

Provided that nothing in this subsection shall require the deposit with the town clerk of the City of a further copy of any document so deposited before 1st April 1965.

• (2) As respects buildings in Greater London—

• (a) any reference to a local planning authority in section 30 of the Planning Act (which relates to building preservation orders) or in section 62 or 125 of that Act so far as it relates to such orders shall be construed as including a reference to the Greater London Council;

• (b) except in any case or class of cases with respect to which the Greater London Council otherwise direct, each London borough council and the Common Council shall supply the Greater London Council with copies of any notices received by the borough council or Common Council under section 33 of that Act;

• (c) any reference in sections 52 to 55 of that Act to the local planning authority shall be construed as including a reference to the Greater London Council;

• (d) section 69 of that Act shall have effect as if Greater London were a county and the Greater London Council were the council of that county and as if the London boroughs and the City were county boroughs and, in the case of the City, the Common Council were the council of that county borough.

• (3) In section 33 (3) of the Planning Act, for the words from “to the Minister” onwards there shall be substituted the words—

(a) to the Minister; and (b) if the building to which the notice relates is situated in a county district, to the council of that district; and (c) to such other persons or bodies of persons as may be specified by directions of the Minister either generally or with respect to the building in question

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Miscellaneous modifications of Planning Act

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• (1) In the application to Greater London of the following provisions of the Planning Act, that is to say, sections 68 (1), 71, 74, 75 (7), 112 (4) and (5), 129 (1), 135 (1), 136 (1) and 207 (5), any reference therein to a county borough or the council thereof shall be construed as including a reference to a London borough or the council thereof and to the City or the Common Council, as the case may be.

• (2) Where under section 68 (1) of the Planning Act the Minister has power to authorise a London borough council or the Common Council to acquire any land compulsorily, he may, if after consultation with that council and with the Greater London Council he thinks it expedient so to do, authorise the land to be so acquired by the Greater London Council instead of the borough council or Common Council, and in that case shall have the like powers under section 207 (5) of that Act in relation to the Greater London Council as in relation to the borough council or Common Council.

• (3) The powers conferred on London borough councils and the Common Council by section 71 of the Planning Act shall be exercisable also by the Greater London Council—

• (a) in a London borough, with the consent of the council of the borough; or

• (b) in the City, with the consent of the Common Council; or

• (c) in the Inner Temple or the Middle Temple, with the consent of the Sub-Treasurer or, as the case may be, Under-Treasurer thereof; or

• (d) in any of the areas aforesaid, if the appropriate consent aforesaid is withheld, with the consent of the Minister ; or

• (e) in relation to land in any of the areas aforesaid, without any such consent as aforesaid, if the land is used for the purposes of an industrial or commercial undertaking and is to be acquired incidentally to the removal of that undertaking from Greater London.

• (4) In section 154 (7) of the Planning Act (which defines the expression “local authority” for the purposes of certain orders relating to highways) after the words “rural district” there shall be inserted the words “the Greater London Council, the council of a London borough, the Common Council of the City of London ”,

• (5) In section 221(1) of the Planning Act, in the definition of “local authority”, for the words “and any other authority being” there shall be substituted the words “the Greater London Council, the council of a London borough and any other authority (except the Receiver for the Metropolitan Police District) who are ”,

• (6) For the purposes of sections 8, 86(5), 178 (1) and (2), 179, 189(2), 199, 211(1)(a) and 217(2) of the Planning Act, the provisions of sections 24 to 29 of this Act shall be deemed to be included in that Act and, in the case of sections 25 to 27 of this Act, to be included in Part II of that Act.

• (7) In paragraph 6(1) of Schedule 11 to the Planning Act, after the words “that council” there shall be inserted the words “or by the Greater London Council in relation to any road for the time being designated by or under section 17 of the London Government Act 1963 as a metropolitan road ”,

Part IV — Education and Youth Employment Service

Local education authorities

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Primary, secondary and further education in Greater London

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Co-ordination of school and other health services in inner London

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• (1) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

• (7) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Provision for continuance of existing educational grants

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Youth employment service

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Part V — Sewerage and Trade Effluents

Sewers and sewage disposal works

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Expenditure on sewerage

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• (1) The expenses incurred by the Greater London Council in the discharge of their functions relating to sewerage and sewage disposal shall be chargeable on the London boroughs and county districts falling wholly or partly within the sewerage area of the Greater London Council and on the City and the Temples, and where part only of such a borough or district falls within the said sewerage area those expenses shall be chargeable only on that part of the borough or district.

• (2) The expenses so incurred shall be expenses for special London purposes notwithstanding that those expenses are chargeable on areas outside Greater London ; and in relation to those expenses paragraph 19(2)(b) of Schedule 2 to this Act shall have effect as if the reference to part only of Greater London included a reference to the sewerage area of the Greater London Council.

• (3) Where any expenses so incurred are by virtue of subsection (1) of this section chargeable on part of a London borough or county district, any expenses incurred by the council of that borough or district in connection with main sewers or sewage disposal works primarily serving another part of the borough or district shall be chargeable only on that other part of the borough or district and, in the case of a rural district, notwithstanding anything in section 6 of the Rural Water Supplies and Sewerage Act 1944, shall not be general expenses.

• (4) The foregoing provisions of this section shall have effect subject to section 67 of this Act.

• (5) The Greater London Council shall reimburse to the council of a London borough or county district any expenses (including an appropriate proportion of administrative expenses) agreed by the two councils, or in default of agreement determined by the Minister, to have been reasonably incurred by the borough or district council in the discharge of their functions in connection with a main sewer which is vested in the borough or district council and primarily serves the sewerage area of the Greater London Council, and any sums reimbursed by the Greater London Council under this subsection shall be treated as expenses incurred by the Council in the discharge of their functions relating to sewerage and sewage disposal.

Application of enactments relating to sewerage and sewage disposal

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• (2) The provisions of Part III of the said Schedule 9 shall, except so far as the contrary intention appears, have effect in all parts of the sewerage area of the Greater London Council (being provisions reproducing, with modifications designed amongst other things to enable them to operate in that area or to bring them into conformity with this Act or the enactments mentioned in the foregoing subsection, provisions of Part II of the Public Health (London) Act 1936 and other enactments relating to sewerage, sewage disposal and drainage in the administrative county of London which do not correspond to any enactments mentioned in that subsection but which it is expedient to apply to that area).

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Trade effluents

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Supplementary provisions relating to sewerage

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• (1) In this Part of this Act, except where the context otherwise requires—

• (a) “main sewer” means a public sewer used for the general reception of sewage from other public sewers and not substantially used for the reception of sewage from private sewers and drains ;

• (b) “sewerage area of the Greater London Council” means an area defined by an order made by the Minister as being the area drained by the sewers for the time being vested in the Council by virtue of section 35 of this Act and by any other sewers the sewage from which is directly or indirectly discharged into the sewers or sewage disposal works so vested in the Council, exclusive of any area in the district of the West Kent Main Sewerage Board and any area outside Greater London the sewage from which is so discharged in pursuance only of an agreement under section 28 of the Public Health Act 1936 ;

• (c) any expression which is also used in Part II of the Public Health Act 1936 shall have the same meaning as in the said Part II.

• (2) An order under subsection (1)(b) of this section defining the sewerage area of the Greater London Council as constituted on 1st April 1965 shall be made so as to come into force on that date and subsequent orders redefining that area shall be made thereunder as occasion may require.

• (3) The Greater London Council shall keep, together with the documents relating to the business of the Council, a map or other document showing the extent for the time being of their sewerage area, and that map or other document shall be open to inspection by members of the public.

• (4) Any installation or equipment installed or used for the purpose of treating any overflow of sewage from a sewer caused by an excess of storm water shall be deemed for the purposes of this Part of this Act to form part of that sewer and not to be or form part of a sewage disposal works.

• (5) Any dispute between two authorities having functions with respect to sewers as to whether a sewer primarily serving the sewerage area of the Greater London Council is or is not a main sewer or whether or not a sewer or sewage disposal works primarily serves a part of that area or a part of Greater London not forming part of that area (other than a dispute which falls to be determined under section 17 of the Public Health Act 1936) shall in default of agreement be determined by the Minister.

Part VI — Application of Public Health Acts and Related Acts

General application of Public Health Acts

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• (1) The enactments to which this section applies shall apply or, as the case may be, continue to apply throughout Greater London as they apply elsewhere in England and Wales, but those enactments shall have effect subject to the provisions of subsection (2) of this section and to the modifications specified in Part I of Schedule 11 to this Act.

• (2) Subject to any provision to the contrary in the said Part I, . . . , the local authority and the urban sanitary authority for the purposes of the said enactments shall—

• (a) for a London borough, be the council of the borough;

• (b) for the City, be the Common Council; and

• (c) for the Inner Temple and the Middle Temple, be the Sub-Treasurer and the Under-Treasurer thereof respectively.

• (3) The provisions of Part II of Schedule 11 to this Act shall have effect in Greater London (being provisions reproducing, with modifications designed to bring them into conformity with this Act or the enactments to which this section applies, certain provisions of the Public Health (London) Act 1936 and certain other enactments having effect only in the administrative county of London).

• (4) This section applies to the following enactments:—

• (a) the Public Health Acts 1875 to 1925;

• (b) the Public Health Act 1936;

• (c) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

• (e) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

• (f) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

• (g) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

• (h) the Public Health Act 1961:

• (i) the Registered Homes Act 1984;

Port health authority for Port of London

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Medical officers of health and public health inspectors for the City, etc.

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• (1) The provisions of sections 106, 108, 110, 115 and 116 of the Local Government Act 1933 relating to medical officers of health and public health inspectors shall apply to the City, the Inner Temple and the Middle Temple, and accordingly in those sections, so far as they apply to such officers and inspectors, references to a borough and to a borough council or a local authority shall be construed as including references to the City, the Inner Temple and the Middle Temple and to the Common Council, the Sub-Treasurer of the Inner Temple and the Under-Treasurer of the Middle Temple respectively.

• (2) The provisions of the said sections 106, 115 and 116 relating to medical officers of health and public health inspectors shall also apply to the port health district of the Port of London, and accordingly in those sections, so far as they apply to such officers and inspectors, references to a borough and to a borough council or a local authority shall also be construed as including references to that district and to the port health authority therefor respectively.

Modifications of London Building Acts

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• (1) Without prejudice to the application to any part of Greater London by section 40 of this Act of any enactments relating to building control and to buildings and structures, but subject to any order under section 84 of this Act, the relevant provisions of the London Building Acts shall continue to have effect in Greater London other than the outer London boroughs, and Part II and Part VII of the Act of 1939 and any regulations thereunder and any other relevant provisions of the London Building Acts which relate to the said Part II and Part VII shall, notwithstanding anything in section 4 of the Act of 1930, extend to the outer London boroughs; and—

• (a) the Greater London Council shall have the functions of the London county council under all the aforementioned provisions; and

• (b) the councils of the inner London boroughs and, in the case of provisions which extend to the outer London boroughs, the councils of the outer London boroughs shall have the functions of metropolitan boroughs under the said provisions.

• (2) In accordance with the foregoing subsection, in the relevant provisions of the London Building Acts and any byelaws and regulations made thereunder—

• (a) for references to London or the administrative county of London there shall be substituted references to Greater London other than the outer London boroughs;

• (b) for references to the London county council there shall be substituted references to the Greater London Council, except that for references to instruments of any description made by, or resolutions of, the London county council there shall be substituted references to instruments of that description made by, or resolutions of, that county council or the Greater London Council;

• (c) for references to the council of a metropolitan borough there shall be substituted references to the council of an inner London borough or, in the case of a provision which extends to the outer London boroughs, references to the council of any London borough, and references to a local authority shall be construed accordingly;

• (d) for references to the London Building Acts or the provisions of those Acts there shall be substituted references to the relevant provisions of those Acts, and for references to the Act of 1930, 1935 or 1939 (other than references to a specified provision thereof) there shall be substituted references to so much of the said relevant provisions as are contained in that Act.

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• (5) In this section “the relevant provisions of the London Building Acts” means—

• (a) the London Building Acts 1930 to 1939, except the provisions repealed by the next following subsection;