(1)The authorities to whom rate-deficiency grants under Part I of the Local Government Act 1948 may become payable shall include the London borough councils, and accordingly references to those councils shall be substituted for references to metropolitan borough councils in sections 5 and 6 of the Local Government Act 1958 (which regulate the cases in which and conditions subject to which such grants are payable).
(2)For the purposes of the said section 5, sums payable by an authority by virtue of a precept issued by the Greater London Council, in so far as payable in respect of expenditure of that Council for general London purposes, shall not be treated as expenditure of the authority paying those sums.
(3)Section 6 of the said Act of 1958 (which provides for disregarding the amount of abnormal expenditure in determining the amount of any rate-deficiency grant) shall not affect the payment of rate-deficiency grants to a London borough council or the Common Council for the years 1965-66, 1966-67 and 1967-68.