London Government Act 1963

64 General grants

(1) The authorities to whom general grants are payable under Part I of the Local Government Act 1958 shall include the London borough councils and the Common Council, and accordingly references in the said Part I to recipient authorities shall include references to those councils.

(2) The expenditure which qualifies as relevant expenditure for the purposes of the said Part I shall include expenditure incurred by or on behalf of the Greater London Council in respect of the carrying out of that Council's functions by virtue of section 45(3) of this Act and any expenditure by way of contributions by that Council—

(a) by virtue of section 45(4) or 47(4) of this Act; or

(b) by virtue of section 46(3) of this Act so far as it relates to section 26(6) of the National Assistance Act 1948.

(3) Where the provision of any service giving rise to relevant expenditure within the meaning of the said Part I as amended by the last foregoing subsection is a function of the Greater London Council or of a joint board whose district is wholly or partly comprised in a London borough or in the City, section 3(1) of the said Act of 1958 (which enables the Minister to reduce a general grant in the case of default by a recipient authority) shall in relation to that borough or the City, as the case may be, apply to a failure on the part of the Greater London Council or the joint board to achieve or maintain reasonable standards as it would apply if the failure were that of the council of that borough or the Common Council, as the case may be.

(4) In its application to the council of an inner London borough or the Common Council, paragraph 4 of Part III of Schedule 1 to the said Act of 1958 shall have effect as if in sub-paragraph (1) thereof—

(a) for any reference to the local education authority there were substituted a reference to the Inner London Education Authority;

(b) the reference to the centres provided as mentioned in that sub-paragraph were a reference to such centres provided by the council of any of the inner London boroughs or the Common Council;

(c) for the first reference to the area of the authority there were substituted a reference to the Inner London Education Area and the second such reference were a reference to the inner London borough in question or, as the case may be, the City ;

and, for the purposes of sub-paragraph (2) (b) of that paragraph, as if the Inner London Education Area were the area of a single local health authority.

(5) In paragraph 8 (3) of the said Part III, for the words " the administrative county of London" there shall be substituted the words " Greater London ",