London Government Act 1963

62 Miscellaneous local authority functions

(1) The London borough councils and (where not already so) the Common Council shall be local authorities for the purposes of the following enactments—

(a) the Canals Protection (London) Act 1898, which shall extend to the whole of Greater London;

(b) the Celluloid and Cinematograph Film Act 1922, which shall extend to the whole of Greater London ;

(c) the Pharmacy and Poisons Act 1933 ;

(d) section 17 of the Restriction of Ribbon Development Act 1935 ;

(e) the Riding Establishments Act 1939 ;

(f) the Schedule to the Consumer Protection Act 1961, including that Schedule as applied by section 6(3)(b) of that Act.

(2) Schedule 14 to this Act shall have effect with respect to the discharge in Greater London and the adjoining areas of functions with respect to land drainage and flood prevention and other functions under the enactments therein mentioned.

(3) Without prejudice to the operation in Greater London of the Places of Worship Registration Act 1855, nothing in this Act shall transfer to any local authority in Greater London any functions under the Places of Religious Worship Act 1812.

(4) Unless provision for the purpose is made by some other Act passed during the same session as this Act, the Board of Trade may, as respects Greater London or any part thereof, by order make provision as to the authority by whom there shall be exercised on and after 1st April 1965 any function conferred on local authorities by the enactments relating to weights and measures.

(5) The confirmation and record of the rules of loan societies under the Loan Societies Act 1840 shall as respects any such society formed in Greater London be functions of the Greater London Council; and accordingly in relation to that Act sections 3 and 78 of the Local Government Act 1888 shall have effect as if Greater London were a county and the Greater London Council were the council of that county.