London Government Act 1963

Common services

71 Research and information on matters concerning Greater London

(1) The Greater London Council shall establish an organisation for the purpose of conducting, or assisting in the conducting of, investigations into, and the collection of information relating to, any matters concerning Greater London or any part thereof and making, or assisting in the making of, arrangements whereby any such information and the results of any such investigation are made available to any authority concerned with local government in Greater London, any government department or the public; and without prejudice to the foregoing provisions of this subsection the Greater London Council shall be a local authority for the purposes of sections 134 and 135 of the Local Government Act 1948 (which relate respectively to information centres and to instruction and information on questions relating to local government).

(2) The appropriate Minister with respect to any matter may require the Greater London Council to provide him with any information with respect to that matter which is in the possession of, or available to, that Council, any London borough council or the Common Council in consequence of the exercise of any power conferred by or under any enactment; and where such a requirement is made in respect of any information which is so in the possession of, or available to, any London borough council or the Common Council but not the Greater London Council, the Greater London Council may require that borough council or, as the case may be, the Common Council to furnish the Greater London Council with that information.

72 Supply of goods to authorities in Greater London

(1) The Greater London Council may purchase and store and supply to any authority such as is mentioned in subsection (2) of this section any goods or materials required for the discharge of the functions of that authority, and that Council and any such authority may enter into and carry into effect agreements and do all such other acts as may be necessary or convenient for the purpose of any such purchase, storage or supply.

(2) The authorities referred to in the foregoing subsection area—

(a) any of the following, and any joint committee appointed by any two or more of the following, that is to say, the London borough councils, the Common Council and, in relation to any functions exercisable by them which are exercisable elsewhere in Greater London by the said councils, the Sub-Treasurer of the Inner Temple and the Under-Treasurer of the Middle Temple;

(b) any body of persons discharging functions relating to education or public health in Greater London and receiving financial aid in relation to those functions from any of the councils aforesaid or from the Greater London Council or the Inner London Education Authority;

(c) any person or body of persons responsible for the management or government of any school or other educational institution in Greater London in the case of which the fees or expenses of any person receiving education, instruction or training thereat are wholly or partly defrayed by a local education authority in Greater London;

(d) any voluntary organisation with which a local authority in Greater London have made such arrangements as are referred to in section 26 of the National Assistance Act 1948 ;

(e) any body of persons concerned with the promotion of the welfare of persons ordinarily resident in Greater London who are aged or to whom section 29 of the said Act of 1948 applies ;

(f) any of the following bodies constituted under the National Health Service Act 1946, that is to say, any Regional Hospital Board or Executive Council constituted for an area which falls wholly or partly within Greater London, and any Hospital Management Committee appointed by, and the Board of Governors of any teaching hospital situated in the area of, any such Regional Hospital Board;

(g) the British Postgraduate Medical School.

73 Publicity for amenities of Greater London

(1) Subject to subsection (2) of this section the Greater London Council may, for the purpose of giving publicity to the amenities and advantages of Greater London—

(a) enter into and carry into effect agreements for the purpose with any person approved by the Minister;

(b) make reasonable contributions towards the expenses incurred by any such person in giving effect to any such agreement;

(c) incur reasonable expenditure on the use of suitable media of advertising;

(d) incur reasonable expenditure on the establishment and maintenance of office accommodation for the dissemination of information relating to Greater London.

(2) Nothing in the foregoing subsection shall authorise the Greater London Council to give publicity in the United Kingdom, whether by advertising or otherwise, to the commercial and industrial advantages of Greater London; and nothing in paragraph (c) or (d) of that subsection shall authorise the publication of any advertisement, or the establishment or maintenance of office accommodation, by the Greater London Council themselves in any place outside the United Kingdom.