The Minister may, by a rate support grant order, vary, repeal or add to any of the provisions of paragraphs 2 to 10 of this Part of this Schedule, and any reference in this Act to those provisions includes a reference to them as altered by virtue of this paragraph ; but if the power conferred by this paragraph is exercised by a rate support grant order it shall not be exercised by the next following rate support grant order.

Notwithstanding anything in section 1(5) of this Act, payments made to the Greater London Council in respect of the needs element shall be made in aid of the expenditure of the Council chargeable on the area comprising the inner London boroughs and the City of London ; but the Council may make such adjustments between their accounts as they consider appropriate in consequence of the operation of paragraph 13 of this Schedule.

For the purposes of this Part of this Schedule the Inner and Middle Temples shall be treated as part of the City of London.

In this Part of this Schedule " population ", in relation to a local authority, means the estimated number of persons in the population of the area of the authority.