London Government Act 1963

36 Expenditure on sewerage

(1) The expenses incurred by the Greater London Council in the discharge of their functions relating to sewerage and sewage disposal shall be chargeable on the London boroughs and county districts falling wholly or partly within the sewerage area of the Greater London Council and on the City and the Temples, and where part only of such a borough or district falls within the said sewerage area those expenses shall be chargeable only on that part of the borough or district.

(2) The expenses so incurred shall be expenses for special London purposes notwithstanding that those expenses are chargeable on areas outside Greater London ; and in relation to those expenses paragraph 19(2)(b) of Schedule 2 to this Act shall have effect as if the reference to part only of Greater London included a reference to the sewerage area of the Greater London Council.

(3) Where any expenses so incurred are by virtue of subsection (1) of this section chargeable on part of a London borough or county district, any expenses incurred by the council of that borough or district in connection with main sewers or sewage disposal works primarily serving another part of the borough or district shall be chargeable only on that other part of the borough or district and, in the case of a rural district, notwithstanding anything in section 6 of the Rural Water Supplies and Sewerage Act 1944, shall not be general expenses.

(4) The foregoing provisions of this section shall have effect subject to section 67 of this Act.

(5) The Greater London Council shall reimburse to the council of a London borough or county district any expenses (including an appropriate proportion of administrative expenses) agreed by the two councils, or in default of agreement determined by the Minister, to have been reasonably incurred by the borough or district council in the discharge of their functions in connection with a main sewer which is vested in the borough or district council and primarily serves the sewerage area of the Greater London Council, and any sums reimbursed by the Greater London Council under this subsection shall be treated as expenses incurred by the Council in the discharge of their functions relating to sewerage and sewage disposal.