London Government Act 1963

59 The Green Belt

(1) Where, in the case of any Green Belt land within the meaning of the Green Belt (London and Home Counties) Act 1938, immediately before 1st April 1965—

(a) that land, not being land to which section 81(1) of this Act applies, was vested in the London or Middlesex county council; or

(b) any functions, rights or liabilities were exercisable with respect to that land by either of those councils,

then on that date that land shall vest in, or, as the case may be, those functions, rights and liabilities shall become functions, rights and liabilities of, the Greater London Council.

(2) In the said Act of 1938—

(a) in section 2 (1), in the definition of " the area", for the words from " London " onwards there shall be substituted the words " and Surrey, and Greater London ";

(b) the expression " local authority" shall include the Greater London Council;

(c) the expression " contributing local authority " in relation to any land in relation to which, if this Act had not been passed, any existing council to whom section 3(1)(b) of this Act applies would have been such an authority, shall, if that existing council is the London or Middlesex county council, include the Greater London Council or, in any other case, include the London borough council whose area includes the whole or any part of the area of that existing council;

(d) in sections 5, 6, 12, 15 and 32, the expression "the county council" in relation to any land in Greater London shall mean the Greater London Council;

(e) in section 17 (7) for the words " county or borough or district or parish " there shall be substituted the word " area ",