London Government Act 1963

30 Local education authorities

(1) As from 1st April 1965, any reference in the Education Acts 1944 to 1962 or in any other Act to the local education authority shall be construed—

(a) in relation to any outer London borough, as a reference to the council of that borough ;

(b) subject to subsections (6) and (7) of this section, in relation to the remainder of Greater London (which remainder shall be known as the Inner London Education Area) as a reference to the Greater London Council acting by means of a special committee thereof constituted as mentioned in subsection (2) of this section;

and the Greater London Council, when acting as aforesaid as the local education authority for the said Area, shall, except for the purposes of any document of title, be known as the Inner London Education Authority, and any reference in this or any other Act to a member or officer of that Authority or, in relation to that Authority, to a member or officer of a local education authority shall be construed as a reference to a member of the special committee aforesaid or, as the case may be, an officer appointed for the purposes of the functions of the Greater London Council as a local education authority.

(2) The special committee aforesaid shall consist of—

(a) such of the councillors of the Greater London Council as have been elected by local government electors for an inner London borough or the City;

(b) one representative of each inner London borough council appointed by that borough council from among the members thereof;

(c) one representative of the Common Council appointed by the Common Council from among the members thereof;

and any person appointed in pursuance of paragraph (b) or (c) of this subsection shall, unless re-appointed, retire on the fourteenth day after the ordinary day of retirement of London borough councillors falling next after his appointment, but may resign his membership of the Inner London Education Authority at any time by notice in writing to the clerk of the council by whom he was appointed thereto.

(3) The Greater London Council shall not act by means of the special committee aforesaid for the purpose of issuing any precept or borrowing any money, but shall so act for the purpose of determining—

(a) the amount for which the Council are to precept upon rating authorities in the Inner London Education Area in respect of expenditure of the Inner London Education Authority; and

(b) what amount, if any, is to be borrowed by the Council in respect of such expenditure,

and for the purpose of the making of the arrangements for the handling of receipts and payments required by section 58 of the Local Government Act 1958 so far as those arrangements relate to moneys paid or payable in connection with the functions of the Greater London Council as a local education authority, and shall also so act for the purpose of the appointment of any officer employed solely for the purposes of those functions, and in particular the appointment of the officer referred to in subsection (4) of this section.

(4) The officers to be appointed by the Greater London Council under paragraph 12 of Schedule 2 to this Act shall include a chief education officer of the Inner London Education Authority ; and section 88 of the Education Act 1944 shall apply to the appointment of that officer as it applies to the appointment of any similar officer under the Local Government Act 1933.

(5) Part II of Schedule 1 to the Education Act 1944 shall have effect in its application to the Inner London Education Area as if—

(a) paragraph 7 from " or has been " onwards and paragraph 11 were omitted ;

(b) in paragraph 8, the reference to the power to borrow money or to raise a rate included a reference to the power to make such a determination as is referred to in subsection (3) of this section ;

and Part III of the said Schedule 1 (which relates to the delegation of functions of local education authorities to divisional executives) shall not apply to Greater London.

(6) The Minister of Education shall carry out, and not later than 31st March 1970 lay before Parliament a report on, a review of the administration of education in the Inner London Education Area for the purpose of determining whether, and if so to what extent, in what part or parts of that Area, and subject to what, if any, conditions, all or any of the functions of the local education authority relating to education should be transferred to, or to a body including a member or members appointed by, the appropriate council, that is to say, as respects the City the Common Council or as respects an inner London borough the council of that borough; and in the light of that review the Minister of Education may by regulations make provision for such a transfer as aforesaid of such of those functions, in such part of the Area aforesaid, and subject to such conditions, if any, as may be specified in the regulations; but no such regulations shall be made unless a draft thereof has been laid before, and approved by a resolution of, each House of Parliament.

(7) Any regulations under subsection (6) of this section may include such incidental, consequential, transitional or supplementary provisions, including in particular provisions with respect to finance, the transfer and management or custody of property (whether real or personal) and the transfer of liabilities (but, without prejudice to sections 84(1) and 85 of this Act, excluding provisions with respect to the transfer of officers), as may appear to the Minister of Education to be necessary or proper for the purpose or in consequence of the regulations; and where any such regulations provide as respects any part of the Inner London Education Area for the transfer of all the functions of the local education authority relating to education to some authority other than the Inner London Education Authority, the regulations may also provide for that other authority to become, and for the Inner London Education Authority to cease to be, the local education authority for that part of that Area for the purposes of all enactments except (without prejudice to section 34 (4) of this Act) section 10 of the Employment and Training Act 1948.

(8) In section 97 of the Children and Young Persons Act 1933, in proviso (b), for the words " London County Council as local authority" there shall be substituted the words " local education authority ",