Greater London Authority Act 1999

104 Emergency financial assistance

(1) Section 155 of the [1989 c. 42.] Local Government and Housing Act 1989 (emergency financial assistance to local authorities) shall be amended as follows.

(2) After subsection (1) (local authority incurring expenditure as result of emergency or disaster) there shall be inserted—

“(1A) Expenditure incurred as mentioned in subsection (1) above by—

(a) the London Fire and Emergency Planning Authority,

(b) the Metropolitan Police Authority, or

(c) Transport for London, in respect of places or areas within Greater London,

shall be treated for the purposes of this section as expenditure so incurred by the Greater London Authority (and, accordingly, as so incurred by a local authority).

(1B) To the extent that any financial assistance given to the Greater London Authority under this section is referable to expenditure incurred by a body mentioned in paragraph (a), (b) or (c) of subsection (1A) above, the financial assistance shall be treated for the purposes of section 103 of the Greater London Authority Act 1999 as a payment made to the Greater London Authority for the purposes of that body.”

(3) In subsection (4) (local authorities in England and Wales to which the section applies)—

(a) after paragraph (b) there shall be inserted—

“(bb) the Greater London Authority;”;

(b) at the end of paragraph (eb) there shall be inserted “or”; and

(c) paragraph (f) (Receiver for the Metropolitan Police District) shall cease to have effect.