London Government Act 1963

Modifications of enactments other than Act of 1925

16 Section 177 of the City of London Sewers Act 1848 shall not apply to any hereditament in the City so long as an undertaking in respect of that hereditament is in force under section 11 (2) (a) of the Rating and Valuation Act 1925.

17 Sections 10 and 12 of the London Government Act 1899 and any scheme under the said section 10 shall cease to have effect.

18 In section 117 (8) of the Local Government Act 1929, for the words from “county borough” onwards there shall be substituted the words “rating area in which that parish or other area is situated, to be credited to that parish or other area ”,

19 (1) Section 45 of the Local Government Act 1948 shall apply in relation to Greater London as if Greater London were a county and the Greater London Council were the council of that county, and shall have effect subject to the following provisions of this paragraph.

(2) It shall be the duty of the Greater London Council and of the council of each of the counties of Essex, Hertfordshire, Kent and Surrey to make and submit to the Minister not later than 30th June 1966 a scheme for the constitution of one or more local valuation panels for the area of, or for areas which together comprise the whole of, Greater London or, as the case may be, the county review area of that county ; and any such scheme shall be treated for all purposes as having been made and submitted to the Minister under subsection (1) of the said section 45.

(3) Any such scheme approved by the Minister under subsection (3) of the said section 45 shall not come into operation until 1st April 1967.

(4) Any scheme under the said section 45 for the constitution of local valuation panels for an area abolished or altered by this Act, being a scheme in force immediately before 1st April 1965, shall, notwithstanding the abolition or alteration of that area, but subject to subsection (5) of that section, continue in force until 1st April 1967 and then expire.

(5) Any vacancy occurring before 1st April 1967 in the membership of a local valuation panel constituted under a scheme continued in force by the last foregoing sub-paragraph shall—

(a) if the area for which the panel is constituted falls wholly within Greater London, be filled by a person appointed by the Greater London Council;

(b) if the said area falls wholly within the county review area of one of the said counties aforesaid, be filled by a person appointed by the council of that county ;

(c) in any other case, be filled by a person appointed jointly by those of the said councils within whose areas or county review areas any .part of the area for which the panel is constituted falls.

20 Section 69 of the said Act of 1948 shall have effect as if the Greater London Council were a county council.

21 In section 144 (1) of the said Act of 1948, in the definition of “local authority ”, for the words “metropolitan borough ” there shall be substituted the words “London borough ”,

22 In section 13 (2) of the Rating and Valuation Act 1961, for the words “metropolitan borough ” there shall be substituted the words “London borough ”,

and after the words “parish meeting ” there shall be inserted the words “the Greater London Council ”,

23 In section 18(2)(d) of the said Act of 1961, after the words “each county borough” there shall be inserted the words “to each rating area in Greater London ”,

and after the word “borough ” in the second and third places where it occurs there shall be inserted the words “rating area ”,

24 In the application of section 22 (3) of the said Act of 1961 to Greater London, the definition of “parish ” shall be omitted.

25 In section 24 (4) of the said Act of 1961, after the word “counties ” there shall be inserted the words “the Greater London Council, the councils of London boroughs ”,

26 In Schedule 4 to the Licensing Act 1961, in paragraph 2 (5) (a), for the words “urban parish ” there shall be substituted the words “urban rating area within the meaning of the Rating and Valuation Act 1925 ”,