The Local Law (Greater London Council and Inner London Boroughs) Order 1965

1.  This order may be cited as the Local Law (Greater London Council and Inner London Boroughs) Order 1965 and shall come into operation on 1st April 1965.

2.—(1) The Interpretation Act 1889 applies to the interpretation of this order as it applies to the interpretation of an Act of Parliament.

(2) In this order, except where the context otherwise requires, the following expressions shall have the following meanings respectively, that is to say—

“functions” includes powers and duties;

“inner London borough” means the London borough of Camden, Greenwich, Hackney, Hammersmith, Islington, Kensington and Chelsea, Lambeth, Lewisham, Southwark, Tower Hamlets, Wandsworth or Westminister;

“outer London borough” means a London borough which is not an inner London borough; and

“schedule” means a schedule to this order.

(3) In any enactment specified in a schedule, unless the context otherwise requires, references to any enactment shall be construed as references to that enactment as amended, extended or applied by or under any other enactment or by this order.

(4) Any reference in Schedule 1 or 2 to an enactment is a reference to that enactment as it would have effect on and after 1st April 1965 apart from those schedules.

3.  The enactments specified in Schedule 1 shall have effect subject to the provisions of that schedule.

4.—(1) Save as otherwise expressly provided in Schedule 1 or unless the context otherwise requires, in the enactments specified in Schedule 2 there shall be substituted for any reference to an area, authority or body described in the first column of the following Table a reference to the area, authority or body described in respect thereof in the second column.

TABLE

Existing area, authority or body	Substituted area, authority or body
The administrative county of London	Greater London
The county of London	Greater London except the City of London, the Inner Temple and the Middle Temple
The London County Council The Metropolitan Board of Works	The Greater London Council
A metropolitan borough	Each inner London borough which includes the area of the metropolitan borough or any part thereof
The council of a metropolitan borough	The council or corporation as may be appropriate of each inner London borough which includes the area of the metropolitan borough or any part thereof
A gas company or undertaking	The Area Board within the meaning of the Gas Act 1948 for the supply of gas to the area
An electricity company or undertaking	An Electricity Board within the meaning of the Electricity Act 1947 as amended by the Electricity Act 1957
A company or undertaking supplying water in an existing area	A company or undertaking supplying water in the substituted area
A railway company or undertaking; or the London Passenger Transport Board or any company or undertaking which was or whose functions were transferred to or vested in that Board by the London Passenger Transport Act 1933; or the British Transport Commission or any company or undertaking other than the London Passenger Transport Board which was or whose functions were transferred to or vested in the British Transport Commission by or under the Transport Act 1947	The appropriate Board to or in whom the property, rights, liabilities and functions of the British Transport Commission are transferred or vested by or under the Transport Act 1962
A company whose undertaking was transferred to or vested in the Port of London Authority by the Port of London Act 1908; or the Conservators of the River Thames in respect of the River Thames below the landward limit of the Port of London	The Port of London Authority

(2) Save as otherwise expressly provided in Schedule 1 or unless the context otherwise requires, any functions exercisable in an area mentioned in the first column of the Table set out in paragraph (1) of this article shall be exercisable throughout the area specified in respect thereof in the second column.

5.  The enactments specified in Schedule 3 are hereby repealed to the extent mentioned in the third column of that schedule.

6.—(1) The schemes made by the London County Council and by the council of a metropolitan borough under the enactments to which this article relates are hereby revoked:

Provided that this article shall not apply to article 65(4) to (6) of the scheme made by the London County Council under the London County Council (General Powers) Act 1957 on 16th June 1958.

(2) The enactments to which this article relates are—

(a) the London Council (General Powers) Act 1891, Part IV;

(b) the Local Government and other Officers' Superannuation Act 1922, sections 24 and 29(2);

(c) the Local Government Act 1929, section 124(2)(b);

(d) the Local Government Superannuation Act 1937, sections 25(1), 26(1) and (4), and 36(5);

(e) the Local Government Superannuation Act 1953, sections 3(2), 5(9) and 22(1) and (2); and

(f) the London County Council (General Powers) Act 1957, Part V.

7.—(1) The instruments specified in Schedule 4 are hereby revoked.

(2) In the Borough of Woolwich (Plumstead) Scheme 1901(1), article 3 is hereby revoked.

8.—(1) In the enactments to which this article applies any reference to the Metropolitan Board of Works or to the London County Council shall be construed as a reference to the Greater London Council.

(2) This article applies to the following enactments—

(a) the Metropolitan Commons Acts 1866 to 1898;

(b) the Metropolitan Commons Supplemental Act 1871;

(c) the Metropolitan Commons Second Supplemental Act 1871;

(d) the Metropolitan Commons Supplemental Act 1872;

(e) the Metropolitan Commons Supplemental Act 1873;

(f) the Metropolitan Commons Supplemental Act 1877;

(g) the Metropolitan Commons Supplemental Act 1881;

(h) the Metropolitan Board of Works (Hackney Commons) Act 1881; and

(i) the Metropolitan Commons Supplemental Act 1884.

9.  Any byelaws made before 1st April 1965 under an enactment specified in Schedule 1 or 2 and in force in an area comprised in an inner London borough shall continue to have effect in such area as if made by the authority substituted in references by that schedule and by article 4 of this order and references in such byelaws to any authority shall in such application be construed as references to the authority so substituted.

Given under the official seal of the Minister of Housing and Local Government on 19th March 1965.

L.S.

R. H. S. Crossman

Minister of Housing and Local Government