The Local Government Reorganisation (Property etc.) Order 1986

The Greater London Record Office

18.—(1) There shall vest in the Common Council—

(a) the land and premises at 40 Northampton Road, Clerkenwell occupied in part for the purposes of the Greater London Record Office and History Library; and

(b) all records held by the Greater London Council (whether at those premises or otherwise) for those purposes; and

(c) any other property held by the Greater London Council exclusively for those purposes.

(2) In the Local Government (Records) Act 1962(1)—

(a) in section 2(6) after the words “London borough” there shall be inserted the words “to the Common Council of the City of London,”;

(b) after section 2(6) there shall be inserted—

“(7) In the application of this section to the Common Council of the City of London `local interest' shall be construed as if the area of the Council included the whole of Greater London.”;

(c) in section 8(1), in the definition of “local authority”, after the words “county district” there shall be inserted the words “the Common Council of the City of London”.

(1)

a new section 2(6) is substituted by paragraph 22(1) of Schedule 8 to the Local Government Act 1985.