London Government Act 1963

47 Children authorities

(1) Subject to subsection (2) of this section, the council of each London borough shall as respects the borough, and the Common Council shall as respects the City, have the functions of the council of a county borough under the enactments to which this section applies and be the local authority for the purposes of such of those enactments as refer to a local authority ; and accordingly references to the council of a county borough or a local authority in those enactments, in the amendment of section 96 of the Children and Young Persons Act 1933 made by Schedule 4 to the Acquisition of Land (Authorisation Procedure) Act 1946 and in the definition of " remand home " in any enactment shall, subject as aforesaid, be construed as including references to the council of a London borough and the Common Council.

(2) Section 96(4) of the Children and Young Persons Act 1933 shall not apply to expenses incurred by the Common Council, and, without prejudice to paragraph 27(d) of Schedule 4 to this Act, subsections (2) and (3) of section 49 of the Children Act 1948 shall not apply to the accounts kept by a London borough council under that section.

(3) The enactments to which this section applies are—

(a) Parts III, IV and V of the Children and Young Persons Act 1933 and Part VI of that Act so far as it relates to the said Parts III, IV and V ;

(b) the Children Act 1948 ;

(c) sections 48 and 49 of the Criminal Justice Act 1948;

(d) Part I of the Children Act 1958;

(e) the Adoption Act 1958;

(f) any other enactment conferring functions for the purposes of which a local authority are required to establish a children's committee under section 39 of the Children Act 1948.

(4) The Greater London Council may make contributions to any voluntary organisation—

(a) whose object or primary object is to promote the welfare of children ; or

(b) who are providing advice, guidance and assistance such as to promote the welfare of children by diminishing the need to receive children into or keep them in care under the Children Act 1948 or the Children and Young Persons Act 1933 or to bring children before a juvenile court.