Local Government Act 1985

Transitional provisions

80 Transitional provisions relating to block grant and expenditure levels

(1) For the purposes of section 59(6)(a) of the [1980 c. 65.] Local Government, Planning and Land Act 1980 and section 8(3)(a) of the [1982 c. 32.] Local Government Finance Act 1982 in their application to block grant payable to a relevant authority for the year beginning with the abolition date there shall be deemed to have been payable to that authority in the previous year block grant of such an amount as may be determined by the Secretary of State.

(2) In relation to block grant payable for the year beginning with the abolition date the principles mentioned in section 59(11 A) of the said Act of 1980 and those mentioned in section 8(6) of the said Act of 1982 need not be the same for all relevant authorities.

(3) Notwithstanding subsection (2) of section 3 of the [1984 c. 33.] Rates Act 1984 the principles in accordance with which the Secretary of State exercises his power under that section to determine a level for the total expenditure of a relevant authority in the year beginning with the abolition date may differ from those applied by him in the case of any other relevant authority.

(4) In this section " relevant authority " means a metropolitan district council, a London borough council, the Common Council, a new authority and any other authority which the Secretary of State, having regard to any transfer of functions or property to that authority under or by virtue of this Act, may by order designate as a relevant authority for the purpose of this section.

81 Transitional functions of residuary bodies in respect of block grant

(1) Any payment which by virtue of any provision of Part VI of the Local Government, Planning and Land Act 1980 would but for this Act have fallen to be made on or after the abolition date by or to the Greater London Council or the council of a metropolitan county in respect of block grant payable for a year ending before that date shall instead be made by or to the appropriate residuary body.

(2) Any information, notice, representation or request under section 65, 66 or 67 of that Act which but for this Act would have fallen to be given or made by or to the Greater London Council or the council of a metropolitan county on or after the abolition date in respect of block grant payable for a year ending before that date shall instead be given or made by or to the appropriate residuary body.

(3) In relation to the Greater London Council in its capacity as the Inner London Education Authority, for references to the appropriate residuary body in subsections (1) and (2) above there shall be substituted references to the body which by virtue of section 18 above will become the Inner London Education Authority on the abolition date.

82 Transitional provisions for interim authorities

(1) As respects anything falling to be done before the abolition date in relation to the financial year beginning on that date references in sections 68 and 69 above and in the enactments which they amend to the Inner London Education Authority and the Northumbria Police Authority shall be construed respectively as references to the Inner London Interim Education Authority and the Northumbria Interim Police Authority; and references to the Inner London Education Authority in sections 70 and 72 above shall, as respects any time before the abolition date, be construed as references to the Inner London Interim Education Authority.

(2) This Act does not affect Part I of the [1984 c. 33.] Rates Act 1984 in its application, for any financial year ending before the abolition date, to the existing Inner London Education Authority, that is to say, that Authority within the meaning of section 30 of the [1963 c. 33.] London Government Act 1963.