London Government Act 1963

8 After section 19 there shall be inserted the following section—

“19A Power of Greater London Council to execute road improvements not involving widening.

(1) Where the Greater London Council, after consultation with the council of a London borough or the Common Council of the City of London, are of the opinion that, with a view to facilitating the movement of traffic, it is expedient for works to be executed for the improvement of a highway in Greater London for which the borough council or the Common Council are the highway authority, then—

(a) the highway authority shall, within three months of being notified of that fact, inform the Greater London Council whether they are prepared to undertake those works and, if so, within what time; and

(b) if the Greater London Council at the expiration of the said three months are not satisfied that the highway authority will with reasonable despatch undertake those works (or within the said three months are satisfied that they will not), the Greater London Council may execute those works or other works appearing to them to secure the same or an equivalent improvement of the highway;

and for the purposes of this subsection it shall not be treated as widening a highway to take into the highway land not forming part of it but situated within its outer limits.

(2) Subsections (2) to (6) of section 19 of this Act shall have effect for the purposes of this section as if in those subsections—

(a) for any reference to the Minister there were substituted a reference to the Greater London Council; and

(b) for any reference to the execution of works under that section there were substituted a reference to the execution of works under this section,

and as if in subsection (3) of that section the words from “except” to “by the Minister ” were omitted.”