London Government Act 1963

16 Highway authorities

(1) The Greater London Council shall be the highway authority for all metropolitan roads; and the council of a London borough or the Common Council shall be the highway authority for all highways in the borough or, as the case may be, in the City, whether or not maintainable at the public expense, which are not for the time being metropolitan roads or highways for which under section 1 (1) of the Highways Act 1959 the Minister of Transport is the highway authority.

(2) The Highways Acts 1959 and 1961 shall extend to the whole of Greater London, and—

(a) the Highways Act 1959 shall have effect subject to the amendments specified in Schedule 6 to this Act, being amendments—

(i) consequential on other provisions of this Act; or

(ii) designed to apply in relation to highway authorities in Greater London, in appropriate cases and with appropriate modifications, provisions of that Act applicable to comparable authorities elsewhere;

(b) in section 2(2) of the Private Street Works Act 1961, the reference to a county borough shall include a reference to a London borough ;

and in the application of section 153 of the Highways Act 1959 to Greater London the words " the carriageway of " in subsection (1) thereof shall be omitted.

(3) The power conferred on a local highway authority by section 26 (2) of the Highways Act 1959 to construct new highways shall be exercisable by the Greater London Council for the purpose of constructing a new highway communicating with a metropolitan road notwithstanding that the new highway will not itself be such a road ; but before so exercising that power that Council shall give notice of their proposals for the construction of the new highway to, and consider any representations by, the council which will be the highway authority for that new highway.

(4) Where a new highway to be constructed by virtue of the said section 26(2) by a London borough council or the Common Council will communicate with a metropolitan road, the communication shall not be made unless the manner in which it is to be made has been approved by the Greater London Council.

(5) It shall be the duty of every London borough council and of the Common Council to furnish, and to instruct their officers to furnish, any information in their power which may reasonably be required by the Greater London Council for the purpose of enabling that Council to discharge their functions under or by virtue of this and the two next following sections.

(6) Any expression used in this or the two next following sections which is also used in the Highways Act 1959 shall have the same meaning as in that Act.