London Government Act 1963

34 Youth employment service

(1) Subject to the provisions of this section, as from 1st April 1965 the local education authority for any area in Greater London shall undertake in that area, in accordance (subject to any necessary modification thereof in consequence of this Act) with any scheme in force immediately before that date under section 10 of the Employment and Training Act 1948 which relates, or so far as it relates, to that area, the functions with respect to the youth employment service to which the scheme relates; and for the purposes of any such modification as aforesaid the powers of the Minister of Labour upon the failure of the local education authority to comply with any direction with respect to the amendment of that scheme given by that Minister under section 12 (2) of the said Act of 1948 shall include power by a further direction to amend the scheme himself.

(2) If before 1st January 1966 any authority who by virtue of section 30 (1) of this Act are, or are to become, the local education authority for any area in Greater London give notice in writing to the Minister of Labour that they wish this subsection to have effect, any such scheme as aforesaid, so far as it relates to that area, shall cease to be in force as from such date as that Minister may determine.

(3) Any such authority as are mentioned in the last foregoing subsection who have not given such notice as is so mentioned shall, within such period as the Minister of Labour may allow, submit to that Minister for his approval under the said section 10 a revised scheme for the purposes of that section, and any such revised scheme shall be deemed for the purposes of the said Act of 1948 to be such an amending scheme as is mentioned in section 12(1) of that Act.

(4) Unless notice in respect of the Inner London Education Area has been given under subsection (2) of this section, the Minister of Labour shall, in conjunction with the review to be carried out by the Minister of Education under section 30(6) of this Act, carry out, and not later than 31st March 1970 lay before Parliament a report on, a review of the administration of the youth employment service in that Area for the like purpose as the Minister of Education's review aforesaid and shall have as respects the functions of the local education authority under the said section 10 the like power to make regulations in the light of that review as are conferred by section 30(6) and (7) of this Act on the Minister of Education as respects that authority's functions relating to education.

(5) In paragraph 1(b) of Schedule 1 to the said Act of 1948 (which provides for the nomination by certain bodies of members of the National Youth Employment Council), for the words “The London County Council” there shall be substituted the words “The Inner London Education Authority ”,