London Government Act 1963

Supplementary provisions as to the Council

10 The Council shall be a local authority within the meaning of the Local Government Act 1933.

11 (1) In their application to the Council by virtue of the last foregoing paragraph, the provisions of Part II of, and Schedule 3 to, the said Act of 1933 (which contain general provisions as to members and meetings of local authorities and elections) shall apply in like manner as if Greater London were a county and the Council were the council of that county and as if in those provisions—

(a) any reference to a county alderman or county councilor included a reference to an alderman or, as the case may be, councillor of the Council;

(b) any reference to election under that Act included a reference to election under this Act;

(c) for the references in sections 67 (2) and 72 (1) of that Act to the county returning officer there were substituted references to the clerk to the Council.

(2) In its application to the Council, the said Schedule 3 shall have effect subject to the following modifications, that is to say—

(a) in any year (including 1964) which is a year of election of councillors of the Council, the annual meeting of the Council shall be held on the eighteenth day after the day of election or on such other day within the seven days immediately following that eighteenth day as the Council may fix ;

(b) in paragraph 2 (2) of Part I, for any reference to five members there shall be substituted a reference to twenty members ;

(c) notwithstanding anything in paragraph 2(3)(b) of Part I, if a member of the Council gives notice in writing to the clerk to the Council that he desires summonses to attend meetings of the Council to be sent to him at some address specified in the notice other than his place of residence, any summons addressed to him and delivered at or sent by post to the address so specified shall be deemed sufficient service of the summons ;

(d) paragraph 3(2) of Part I shall have effect as if after the word " vice-chairman " there were inserted the words " or, in his absence, the deputy chairman (if any) " ; and in paragraph 3 (3) of Part I the reference to the vice-chairman shall be construed as a reference to both the vice-chairman and the deputy chairman, if any;

(e) notwithstanding anything in paragraph 3 of Part V or in any other enactment or rule of law to the contrary, the minutes of the proceedings of meetings of the Council or any committee thereof may be recorded on loose leaves consecutively numbered, the minutes of the proceedings of any meeting being signed, and each leaf comprising those minutes being initialled, at the same or the next ensuing meeting of the Council or, as the case may be, at the same or any subsequent meeting of the committee by the person presiding thereat; and any minutes purporting to be so signed shall be received in evidence without further proof.

(3) Without prejudice to their powers by virtue of paragraph 10 of this Schedule under section 85 of the said Act of 1933, the Council may delegate to the Inner London Education Authority, or to any education committee established by that Authority under Part II of Schedule 1 to the Education Act 1944, any functions which they might delegate under subsection (1) of the said section 85 to a committee appointed by the Council under that subsection.