London Government Act 1963

55 Smallholdings, allotments, etc.

(1) Part IV of the Agriculture Act 1947 (which relates to smallholdings) shall apply to the Greater London Council as it applies to a county council, and accordingly in section 47(1) of that Act (which makes it the duty of every county council other than the London county council to provide smallholdings) for the words " other than the London County Council " there shall be substituted the words " and of the Greater London Council ",

(2) The Greater London Council shall have the like powers as a county council under section 12 of the Agricultural Land (Utilisation) Act 1931 with respect to the provision of cottage holdings; and any remaining functions under the provisions of the Small Holdings and Allotments Acts 1908 to 1931 repealed by the Small Holdings and Allotments Act 1926 or saved by proviso (a) to section 67 (2) of the Agriculture Act 1947 which, by virtue of section 19(1) of the said Act of 1926 or the said section 67(2), were exercisable immediately before 1st April 1965 by the Middlesex county council shall as from that date become functions of the Greater London Council.

(3) Section 61(3) of the Agriculture Act 1947 (which relates to the matters which may be referred by a smallholdings authority to the smallholdings committee constituted by that authority under section 61 (1) of that Act) shall apply to the Greater London Council as it applies to the council of a county; and in section 71(8)(c) of that Act (which relates to the discharge of the functions of County Agricultural Executive Committees in the existing county of London) for the words " the county of London" there shall be substituted the words " Greater London ",

(4) In its application to an inner London borough, section 23 of the Small Holdings and Allotments Act 1908 shall have effect as if—

(a) in subsection (1) for the word " shall" wherever it occurs there were substituted the word " may "; and

(b) subsection (2) were omitted ;

and in section 20 of the Allotments Act 1922 for the words " Metropolitan borough " there shall be substituted the words " outer London borough ",