London Government Act 1963

7 Promotion of Bills with respect to local government functions in Greater London

(1) The powers of the Greater London Council under section 253 of the Local Government Act 1933 shall include power subject to subsection (2) of this section to promote a Bill in Parliament for any purpose which is for the public benefit of the inhabitants of Greater London or of any part thereof; and without prejudice to the generality of those powers any provision included in a Bill promoted by that Council—

(a) for such a purpose as aforesaid ; or

(b) subject to subsection (3) of this section, at the request of a London borough council or the Common Council,

may alter the functions of any London borough council or the Common Council or, as the case may be, of the council making the request notwithstanding that no alteration is made thereby in the functions of the Greater London Council.

(2) Before the Greater London Council include in any Bill to be promoted by them any provision altering the functions of the Common Council or a London borough council, they shall consult with the Common Council or, as the case may be, with that borough council or, if the provision relates to all the London borough councils, with any association or committee which appears to the Greater London Council to be representative of those borough councils.

(3) Where, in the case of any provision which, by virtue of subsection (1)(b) of this section, is or is proposed to be included at the request of a borough council or the Common Council in a Bill promoted or to be promoted by the Greater London Council, it is or will be a condition of the inclusion of that provision in the Bill that the borough council or, as the case may be, Common Council shall make a contribution towards the expenses incurred or to be incurred by the Greater London Council in connection with the promotion of the Bill, sections 254 and 255 of, and Schedule 9 to, the said Act of 1933 shall apply in relation to the making of the request aforesaid—

(a) as if any reference in the said sections or Schedule to the promotion of, or of any provision of, a Bill were a reference to the making of the request aforesaid for the inclusion of, or, as the case may be, of any part of, that provision in the Bill in question and, in relation to the Common Council, as if the City were a borough and the Common Council the council of that borough;

(b) as if the deposit of the Bill in question in Parliament by the Greater London Council were such a deposit of that Bill by the borough council or, as the case may be, Common Council;

and where the borough council or Common Council are required by either of the said sections as modified by this subsection to take all necessary steps to withdraw the Bill or some provision thereof, that council shall forthwith notify the Greater London Council to that effect and the Greater London Council shall thereupon take all necessary steps to withdraw the provision or part of a provision in question.

(4) A London borough council or the Common Council may in compliance with any such condition as is referred to in subsection (3) of this section make such contribution towards the expenses incurred by the Greater London Council in connection with the promotion of the Bill in question as may be agreed between the councils concerned.