The Local Law (Greater London Council and Inner London Boroughs) Order 1965

91.  In the London County Council (General Powers) Act 1955—

(a) in section 32(5), for the reference to the Minister of Transport and Civil Aviation there shall be substituted a reference to the Minister of Transport;

(b) in section 34—

(i) in subsection (1), for the words from “section 107” to “land)” there shall be substituted the words “section 164 of the Local Government Act 1933”; and

(ii) in subsection (2), for the reference to the Minister of Education there shall be substituted a reference to the Secretary of State for Education and Science;

(c) in section 35, the definition of “the Bexley Corporation” shall be deleted and references to the Bexley Corporation and the London County Council shall be construed as references to the corporation of the London borough of Bexley and the Greater London Council respectively;

(d) in section 37(1)—

(i) for the words “Public Libraries Acts 1892 to 1919” wherever they occur there shall be substituted the words “Public Libraries and Museums Act 1964”; and

(ii) for the definition of “a library authority” there shall be substituted—

““a library authority” means the council of an inner London borough;”;

(e) in section 38—

(i) any reference to a borough council shall be construed as a reference to the council of an inner London borough;

(ii) for subsection (3) there shall be substituted—

“(3) Where the council of an inner London borough carry out works under any enactment relating to private street works, they may, with the consent of the owners of premises fronting, adjoining or abutting on the part of the street in which the works are carried out, exercise the powers conferred by this section in that part and the expenses incurred in so doing shall be deemed part of the expenses of carrying out the works.

The reference in this subsection to the consent of the owners of the said premises is a reference to the consent of the majority of them where the rateable value of the premises owned by the persons consenting is greater than the rateable value of the rest of the said premises.”;

(iii) for subsection (6) there shall be substituted—

“(6) Section 82 of the Highways Act 1959 shall not apply to highways vested in the council of an inner London borough or to any such land as is referred to in subsection (1) of this section and anything done by the said council under section 1 of the Roads Improvement Act 1925 with respect to such highways or land before the passing of this Act shall be deemed to have been done under this section.”;

(iv) in subsection (11), for the words “section 58 of the Road Traffic Act 1930” there shall be substituted the words “section 67 or 70 of the Highways Act 1959”; and

(v) in subsection (12), the words from “and other words” to the end shall be omitted;

(f) in section 39—

(i) for references to the council of a metropolitan borough there shall be substituted references to the highway authority; and

(ii) at the end there shall be added—

“(11) In this section the expression “highway authority” means —

(a) in the case of a metropolitan road in an inner London borough, the Greater London Council; and

(b) in the case of any other highway in such a borough (not being a highway for which under section 1(1) of the Highways Act 1959 the Minister of Transport is the highway authority) the council of the borough.”

; and

(g) for section 42 there shall be substituted the following section—

“42.   All costs and expenses of the Greater London Council in the execution of this Act shall be defrayed, as the Council may decide—

• as expenditure for general London purposes, or

• as expenditure for special London purposes chargeable on such part of Greater London as the Council may determine.”.