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London Government Act 1963 1963 c.33 An Act to make provision with respect to local government and the functions of local authorities in the metropolitan area; to assimilate certain provisions of the Local Government Act 1933 to provisions for corresponding purposes contained in the London Government Act 1939; to make an adjustment of the metropolitan police district; and for connected purposes. [31st July 1963]
Propose a change(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. (4) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (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; . . . (7) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Propose a change(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. (2),(3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (4) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Propose a change(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.
Propose a change(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.
Propose a change(1) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Propose a change(1),(2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (4),(5) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (6) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Propose a change(1)—(4) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (5) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (6) In the Road Traffic Act 1960 — (a) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (b) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (c) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (d) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (e) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Propose a change(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) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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Propose a change(1)—(6) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (7) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Propose a change(1) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (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). (3),(4) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Propose a change(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),(d) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (e) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (f) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (g) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (h) the Public Health Act 1961: (i) the Registered Homes Act 1984; Provided that this section shall not apply to any enactment applied by or mentioned in section 37, 38, 44 or 58 of, or Schedule 9 or 10 to, this Act, except that it applies to sections 1 (2) and 90 and Part XII of the Public Health Act 1936 so far as relating to other enactments to which this section applies.
Propose a change(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.
Propose a change(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. (3),(4) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (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; (b) sections 6 and 7 of the London County Council (General Powers) Act 1954, and section 3 of that Act so far as it relates to those sections; (c) sections 5 to 13 of, and Schedules 1 and 2 to, the London County Council (General Powers) Act 1955, and section 3 of that Act so far as it relates to those sections and Schedules; (d) section 62 of the London County Council (General Powers) Act 1956; and (e) sections 15 to 17 of the London County Council (General Powers) Act 1958, and sections 3 and 13 of that Act so far as they relate to the said sections 15 to 17; and references to the Acts of 1930 , 1935 and 1939 shall be construed as references respectively to the London Building Act 1930, the London Building Act (Amendment) Act 1935 and the London Building Acts (Amendment) Act 1939. (6) The following provisions of the London Building Acts 1930 to 1939 shall cease to have effect, that is to say— (a) Parts II and 111 and sections 51 to 53 of the Act of 1930 ; (b) section 4(1)(a) of the Act of 1935 ; (c) sections 128 to 131 and 156 of the Act of 1939, and section 148 of that Act so far as it relates to other provisions of the London Building Acts 1930 to 1939 repealed by this subsection.
Propose a change(1)—(3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (4) In the Burial Acts 1852 to 1906 any reference to the Metropolis shall be construed as a reference to Greater London; and in those Acts in their application to Greater London— (a) any reference to a parish (not being a reference which is to be taken as a reference to an ecclesiastical parish) shall, without prejudice to section 68 (5) of the Rating and Valuation Act 1925, as amended by paragraph 13 of Schedule 15 to this Act, be construed as a reference to a London borough or the City, as the case may be; and (b) any reference to a burial board shall be construed as a reference to the council of a London borough or the Common Council, as the case may be. (5) Notwithstanding anything in section 7 of the Burial Act 1900 and without prejudice to section 3 of the Public Health (Interments) Act 1879, the provisions of sections 27 to 31 of the Cemeteries Clauses Act 1847 shall, so far as applicable, continue to apply to the City of London Cemetery, but the foregoing provisions of this subsection shall not affect the right of the incumbent of any ecclesiastical parish in the City to perform funeral services in respect of his own parishioners. (6) The provision made by an order under section 84 of this Act may include provision that a burial ground provided under the Burial Acts 1852 to 1906 for any area the whole or part of which is included in a London borough, or a cemetery provided by virtue of the said Act of 1879 for any such area, shall be treated as if it were provided for the whole of that borough or, if the area is included partly in one and partly in another borough, as if it were provided for the whole of one or both of those boroughs. (7) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Propose a change(1),(2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (4) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (5) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (6) In section 79(1) of the said Act of 1946, in the definition of “local authority”, for the words “metropolitan borough” there shall be substituted the words “London borough, the Greater London Council”; . . . (7) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Propose a change(1),(2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (4) The functions of the council of a London borough under section 47 of the said Act of 1948 (which relates to the removal to suitable premises of persons in need of care and attention) . . . shall, as respects the Inner Temple and the Middle Temple, be exercisable by the Sub-Treasurer and the Under-Treasurer thereof respectively, and those persons shall be included among the appropriate authorities specified in sections 47 (12) . . . of that Act. (5)—(8) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Propose a change(1) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (2) Section 96 (4) of the Children and Young Persons Act 1933 shall not apply to expenses incurred by the Common Council . . . (3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (4) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Propose a change(1),(2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (3) The Metropolitan Fire Brigade Act 1865 shall have effect as if references to the Metropolitan Board of Works were . . . references to the metropolis were references to Greater London other than the outer London boroughs.
Propose a change(1) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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