
1 
This order may be cited as the London Government (Grants and Rates,
etc.) Order 1965, and shall come into operation on 30th January 1965.
2 

(1) The Interpretation Act 1889
applies to the interpretation of this order as it applies to the interpretation
of an Act of Parliament.
(2) In this order—
 “the Act” means 
the London Government Act 1963;

 “the specified matters”
means—
 the establishment of the London boroughs as rating areas and
of the councils of the boroughs as the rating authorities therefor;
 the abolition of the metropolitan boroughs and the county
boroughs and county districts the area of which falls wholly within Greater
London;
 the alteration of the area of the urban district of Chigwell
made by the Act;
 the transfer of the urban district of Potters Bar to Hertfordshire
and of the urban districts of Staines and Sunbury-on-Thames to Surrey;
 the adjustment of the metropolitan police district made by
the Act; and
 the amendment of the Rate-product Rules 1959 made by article 13.

(3) In this order, unless the
context otherwise requires, references to a enactment shall be construed as
references to that enactment as amended, extended or applied by or under any
other enactment or by this order.
(4) Any reference in this order
to a numbered article shall, unless the reference is to an article of a specified
order, be construed as a reference the article bearing that number in this
order.
(5) Any reference in any article
of this order to a numbered paragraph shall, unless the reference is to a
paragraph of a specified article, be construed as a reference to the paragraph
bearing that number in the first-mentioned article.
3 

(1) For the purposes of the
taking of any action and the incurring of an expenditure in relation thereto,
by, or in relation to, the Greater London Council, a London borough council
or the Common Council to ensure the effective operation as from 1st April
1965, the provision made by sections 4
and 83(1)
of the Act shall be deemed to have been made as from the passing of the Act.

(2) For the purposes of the
taking of any action and the incurring of any expenditure in relation thereto,
by any authority in relation to the counties of Hertfordshire and Surrey as
existing on and after 1st April 1965, the provision made by section 3(1) of the Act in relation
to the urban district of Potters Bar and the urban districts of Staines and
Sunbury-on-Thames shall be deemed to have been made as from the passing of
the Act.
4 

(1) In relation to the qualification
of any person to be elected a member of the county council of Essex, Hertfordshire,
Kent or Surrey or the urban district council of Chigwell, or of any committee,
joint board or joint committee, at any election held after the coming into
operation of this order the alteration of the area of the county or the urban
district made by section 3(1)
of the Act shall be deemed to have been made as from the passing of the Act.

(2) No person who remains in
office after 1st April 1965 as a member of the county council of Hertfordshire
or the urban district council of Chigwell or of any committee, joint board
or joint committee, shall, during the term for which he remains in office,
be deemed to lose his qualification for being member by reason of the alteration
of the area of the county or the urban district made by section 3(1) of the Act.
5 

(1) The county councillors
of Essex, Kent and Surrey elected at the elections held in March 1965 shall
come into office on 1st April 1965.
(2) The first meeting of the
county council of Essex, Kent or Surrey held or after 1st April 1965 shall
be the annual meeting of the council for 1965.
6 

(1) Paragraph 1 of Part IV of Schedule
1 (Adjustments of general grants for pooling,
etc., arrangements) to the Local Government Act 1958
shall have effect, in respect of the expenditure defined in items (a) to (d) in sub-paragraph (4)
of the said paragraph, with—
(a) the substitution, in sub-paragraph (2), for the words
following “this paragraph applies” of—
“
of the specified recipient authorities
and the Inner London Education Authority, for apportioning the aggregate among
such authorities and in the case of the specified recipient authorities for
ascertaining the amount by which the general grant to each authority ought
to be increased or decreased.
In this sub-paragraph, `the specified recipient authorities' means the recipient authorities other than the councils of the London
boroughs of Camden, Greenwich, Hackney, Hammersmith, Islington, Kensington
and Chelsea, Lambeth, Lewisham, Southwark, Tower Hamlets, Wandsworth and Westminster
and the Common Council of the City of London
”;and
(b) the addition, in sub-paragraph (3)—
(i) after 
“general grant”, of “or of the
payment to or by the Inner London Education Authority”;
(ii) at the end of
item (b), of “or
of that payment”;
(iii) after “the grants”, of “(whether
payable by virtue of section 64
of the London Government Act 1963
or after re-allocation by a scheme under section
66 of that Act) or make or recover payment
to or from the Inner London Education Authority”;
(iv) after “any adjustment”, of “or
make or recover payment as aforesaid”,and in the General Grants (Pooling Arrangements)
Regulations 1959—
(a) in regulation 4(4) there shall be
inserted—
 after “county borough”
where first occurring, “or an outer London borough
within the meaning of the London Government Act
1963”;
 after “county borough”
where next occurring, “or the London borough”
;
 after “county”, “or the Inner London Education Area”; and
 at the end, “or the said Area”
;
(b) in regulation 5—
 for “and county borough council”
, there shall be substituted, “county borough
council and council of an outer London borough”;
 after “increased or decreased”
 there shall be inserted “and the payment which
should be made to or by the Inner London Education Authority”;

(c) in regulation 6, after 
“general grants” wherever occurring, there shall be inserted “and of the payment to or by the Inner London Education Authority”
.
(2) The said paragraph 1 shall
have effect in respect of the expenditure defined in item (e) in sub-paragraph (4)
thereof with the addition—
(i) of the following paragraph—
“
(3A) If no general
grant is payable to the Common Council of the City of London for any year,
or if the amount of the general grant payable for the year is smaller than
the amount by which the grant falls to be decreased, the preceding sub-paragraph
shall have effect in relation to the City of London with the substitution,
for the words following `the Minister' where last occurring, of `shall recover
the certified estimated amount in respect of the City of London or the difference
between such amount and the amount of the general grant for the year, as the
case may be, from the Common Council, and shall recover or pay any amounts
necessary to offset differences between the estimated and actual amounts certified'.”;

(ii) after 
“the grants” in sub-paragraph (3),
of “(whether payable by virtue of 
section 64 of the London Government
Act 1963 or after re-allocation by a scheme
under section 66
of that Act)”,and in the General Grants (Health Authorities)
(Pooling Arrangements) Regulations 1960, in regulation 5,
for “county council and county borough council”
, there shall be substituted “recipient authority”
.
(3) In the Genera Grant (Calculation) Regulations 1958
—

(a) in regulation 2(2) (which contains
definitions) there shall be inserted—“
`the relevant
area' means a county, a county borough,
a London borough, the City of London or the Isles of Scilly;
”;

(b) in regulation 3(1) (which provides
for estimates), for “the council of each county and
county borough in England and Wales and to the Council of the Isles of Scilly”
, there shall be substituted “the council of
each relevant area”;
(c) in regulation 4 (which provides that
areas shall be taken according to the last published census for the time being),
for “each county and county borough in England and
Wales and of the Isles of Scilly”, there shall be substituted “of each relevant area”;
(d) the following regulation
shall be added—“
5A 
For the purposes of 
regulation 5 and of any estimate of population
made for the purposes of the general grant, the Inner Temple and the Middle
Temple shall be deemed to form part of the City of London.”.
(4) In respect of the general
grant for the year 1964–65 or any earlier year payable to any council
named in column (1) of the following table—
(a) any further estimate
(within the meaning of paragraph (1) of regulation 3
 of the General Grant (Calculation) Regulations 1958)
and the result of the conclusive calculation (within the meaning of paragraph (2) of the said regulation)
thereof shall, if, in either case, it will have effect as regards the payment
of general grants only on or after 1st April 1965, be notified to the council
specified in respect of such first-mentioned council in column (2);
(b) where it appears from
any such estimate or calculation that sums in excess of the amount of the
estimate or calculation have already been paid on account of the grant the
amount of the excess shall be recoverable by the Minister from the council
so specified.

TABLE
(1) (2)
The London County Council The Greater London Council
The county council of Middlesex The Greater London Council
The council of the county borough of Croydon The council of the London borough of Croydon
The council of the county borough of East Ham or West Ham
 The council of the London borough of Newham
(5) In so far as differences
between the estimated and actual amounts of the increases and decreases of
general grant which ought to be made for the year 1964–65 or any earlier
year certified under paragraph 1(3) of Part IV of Schedule
1 to the Local Government Act 1958 cannot
be offset by adjustment of the general grants for such year payable to the
London County Council and the county council of Middlesex, the amounts which
would apart from the abolition of such councils have fallen to be offset shall
be recovered from the Greater London Council.
7 
In respect of the rate-deficiency grant for the year 1964–65
or any earlier year payable to any council named in column (1) of the schedule to
this order—
(a) any further estimate (within
the meaning of paragraph (1) of regulation 8
 of the Rate-deficiency Grants Regulations 1959) and the result of the conclusive calculation
(within the meaning of paragraph (2) of the said regulation) thereof shall,
if, in either case, it will have effect as regards the payment of rate-deficiency
grants only on or after 1st April 1965, be notified to the council specified
in respect of such first-mentioned council in column (2);
(b) the first and second references
in regulation 12(3),
the first reference in regulation 13
and the first reference in regulation 14
of the said Regulations to the council shall be construed as references to
the council named in column (1) or the council specified in respect thereof
in column (2), as the case may be;
(c) any other reference in paragraphs (3) to (5) of regulation 12 or
in regulations 13
and 14 of the said Regulations to the council
shall be construed as a reference to the council specified in column (2).

8 
Any adjustment under regulation 6(2) of the Grants and Rates (Transitional
Adjustments) Regulations 1958 of a contribution under section 15 of the Local Government Act 1958
to or by a council named in column (1) of the schedule
to this order which apart from the specified matters would have fallen to
be made on or after 1st April 1965 shall be made by additions to or deductions
from the general grants payable to the authority specified in respect of such
first-mentioned council in column (2) by virtue of section 64 of the Act or after
re-allocation by a scheme under section 66
of the Act.
9 
In respect of any payment made by the Minister of Housing and Local
Government under Part V of
the Local Government
Act 1948 as amended by section 66
of the Transport
Act 1962 for the year 1964–65 or any
earlier year to any council named in column (1) of the schedule
to this order—
(a) any further estimate (within
the meaning of paragraph (1) of regulation 6
 of the Transport Boards (Payments for Rating Authorities) Regulations
1963)
and the conclusive calculation (within the meaning of paragraph (3) of the said regulation)
thereof shall be notified to the council specified in respect of such first-mentioned
council in column (2);
(b) any adjustment thereof
consequent on such notification shall be effected by means of deductions from
or additions to any sum payable to the council specified in column (2), or
otherwise as the Minister may determine.
10 

(1) This article applies to
the amounts payable in the years 1961–62 to 1964–65 under the
provisions of paragraphs 4 and 5
of the London
Equalisation Scheme 1959.
(2) Until 31st March 1966—

(a) the Minister may make
and notify to the Greater London Council such further estimates of the said
amounts, taking into account information not previously available, as he may
think fit;
(b) as soon as practicable
after he has received what appears to him to be sufficient information for
the purpose the Minister shall make and notify to the Greater London Council
a conclusive calculation of the said amounts.
(3) Any adjustment of information
which could be made for the purposes of rate-deficiency grants under the provisions
of regulations made under section 15
of the Local
Government Act 1948 may be made for the purposes
of paragraph (2) and any expenditure which could be disregarded for the said
purposes may be disregarded for the purposes of such paragraph.
(4) Where any estimate or
conclusive calculation under paragraph (2) for any year shows that a different
amount was payable for that year to any authority, the difference shall be
paid by the Greater London Council to the relevant authority or recovered
by the Council from the relevant authority, as the case may be, by making
the appropriate adjustment of the amounts due under the precepts of the Council
to the relevant authority.In this paragraph, “the relevant authority”
 means—
(a) in relation to the council of any metropolitan
borough, the council of the London borough specified in respect of such first-mentioned
council in column (2) of the schedule
to this order;
(b) in relation
to the Common Council of the City of London, that Council.
11 
For the purposes of—
(a) the alteration of any
valuation list to take effect on 1st April 1965;
(b) the preparation of any
estimate of the product of a rate of a penny in the pound, or the preparation
or service of any precept to be made in respect of a period commencing on
1st April 1965;
(c) the preparation or approval
of any rate to be made in respect of a period commencing on 1st April 1965,

the specified matters shall be deemed to have been effected
as from the coming into operation of this order.
12 

(1) In the application of section 6
of and Schedule
3 to the Rating and Valuation (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1955
to any Gas Board and of section 12
of and Schedule
2 to the Local Government Act 1958 to any
Electricity Board in relation to any rate period beginning on or after 1st
April 1965 the specified matters shall be deemed to have been effected at
all material times.
(2) If any adjustment of the
cumulo-value of a water undertaking falls to be made under section 19
of the Rating
and Valuation Act 1961 for the rate periods
beginning on 1st April 1965 and subsequent rate periods the specified matters
shall for the purpose of sections 19(4)
and 20
of the said Act be deemed to have been effected at all material times.
13 

(1) Subject to the provisions
of article 11,
this article shall have effect as from 1st April 1965.
(2) In the Rate-product Rules 1959—

(a) in rule 2, after 
“county councils” there shall be inserted, 
“the Greater London Council”;
(b) in rule 3(2), for the definitions
of “rating authority” and 
“precepts” there shall be substituted—“

 `rating authority'
means the council of a county district or a London borough,
the Common Council of the City of London, the Sub-Treasurer of the Inner Temple
or the Under-Treasurer of the Middle Temple;
 `precept' means a precept issued by a county council, the Greater London Council
or the Receiver for the Metropolitan Police District;
”;

(c) in rule 8(1), after 
“county council” there shall be inserted, 
“the Greater London Council”.
(3) In rules 4 and 7 of the Rate-product Rules 1959
the references to each rating authority and in rule 4 of the Rate-product (County Boroughs) Rules 1959 the reference to the council of each county
borough shall in respect of any council abolished by section 3 of the Act and in respect
of the year 1964–65 be construed as references to the council specified
in respect of such first, mentioned council in column (2) of the schedule
to this order.
(4) In the Rate-accounts Regulations 1962—
(a) in regulation 2(2), for the definitions
of “council”, “parish”
 and “London” there shall be
substituted—“

 `council' means the council of a county borough, London borough or county district
or the Council of the Isles of Scilly;
 `parish'— outside Greater London, includes any part of a parish being
either a contributory place as defined in section
343 of the Public Health Act 1936 or an area otherwise subject
to separate or differential rating; and in Greater London, means any part
of a rating area which is subject (otherwise than in respect of a garden or
square) to separate or differential rating;
”;
(b) in regulation 2(3), 
“and (in the application of these regulations to London) shall apply
as if that Act extended to London” shall be omitted;
(c) in regulation 3(2)(g) the reference
to previous rates shall include all rates, within the meaning of the Regulations,
made by a London borough council or their predecessors.
(5) In the Valuation Lists Rules 1962—
(a) in rule 3(2), for the definitions
of “London” and “parish”
 there shall be substituted—“

 `parish'— outside Greater London, includes any part of a parish being
either a contributory place as defined in section
343 of the Public Health Act 1936
or an area otherwise subject to separate or differential rating; and in Greater
London, means a rating area or any part of a rating area which is subject
(otherwise than in respect of a garden or square or by reason of any provision
of the City of London (Tithes and Rates) Act
1910 or the City of London
(Tithes) Act 1947 to separate differential rating;
”
(b) rule 3(3) shall be omitted.
(6) In the Valuation (Statutory Deductions) Order 1962
,
in article 4, the
words “in the administrative county of London as well
as elsewhere in England and Wales” shall be omitted.
(7) In the London Outfall Sewers (Assessment of Loss) Order 1963—

(a) in article 2(2)—in the definition of “the appropriate factor”
, for “of the London County Council”
 there shall be substituted “of the Greater
London Council”;for the definition of “the councils”
 there shall be substituted—“

 `the councils'
means the councils of the London boroughs of Bexley,
Greenwich, Newham and Tower Hamlets, and `council'
 means one of the councils;
”
(b) in article 4(3), for 
“London Main Drainage Area” and “the
said Area” there shall be substituted “the
sewerage area of the Greater London Council” and 
“the said sewerage area”;
(c) for the Schedule, there shall be substituted—
“
SCHEDULE


Name of Council Basic Value
 £
Bexley 4,375
Greenwich 8,750
Newham 102,650
Tower Hamlets 12,720”.
14 
The appropriate valuation officers of the Commissioners of Inland
Revenue shall take such action as regards valuation lists as may be necessary
as the result of the Act, and nothing in the Valuation Lists Rules 1962
shall preclude any such action being taken by the amalgamation of existing
valuation lists or sheets of valuation lists or copies thereof (in all cases
with any revisions, in particular the deletion of hereditaments, necessary)
to form valuation lists for the London boroughs or the deletion of hereditaments
from the valuation list for the urban district of Chigwell.
15 
Subject to the provisions of paragraph 19(4) of Schedule 15
 to the Act, any proposal for the alteration
of a valuation list in respect of a hereditament in a London borough shall
have effect as from 1st April 1965 as if it had been made for the alteration
of the valuation list for the London borough in respect of such hereditament,
and any action in relation to such proposal taken by, or in relation to, the
rating authority shall have effect as if it had been taken by, or in relation
to, the council of the London borough.
16 

(1) The members of the local
valuation panels established under the provisions of the Essex Local Valuation Panels Scheme 1957
for the South Eastern and South Western panel areas and the chairmen and deputy
chairmen of such panels who under such provisions are to retire on 1st April
1965 shall remain in office until 1st April 1967.
(2) The members (including
two deputy chairmen) of the local valuation panel established under the provisions
of the County Borough of Croydon Local
Valuation Panel Scheme 1948 who under such
provisions are to retire on 1st April 1966 shall remain in office until 1st
April 1967.
17 
Any direction for the rating of owners under section 11
of the Rating
and Valuation Act 1925 or agreement entered
into under that section (except any such direction rescinded before 1st April
1965 as from that date or any such agreement terminating before that date)
shall continue to have effect in relation to the hereditaments in Greater
London to which it would have applied apart from the specified matters until
31st March 1966 and shall then cease to have effect.

Any direction may be rescinded as aforesaid, in relation to hereditaments
in a London borough, by the council of the London borough.
18 
All rates made but not collected at 1st April 1965 in respect of
hereditaments in a London borough shall be collected and recovered by the
council of the London borough.
19 

(1) This article applies to
the areas specified in column (2) of the table in article 22 of the London Authorities (Property etc.) Order 1964

(2) The amount payable under
the said article in respect of such an area shall be reduced by the aggregate
of the arrears at 31st March 1965 carried forward in the rates record in respect
of hereditaments in such area, and article 24(6)
of the London
Authorities (Property etc.) Order 1964 shall
have effect accordingly.
(3) Any action falling to
be taken after 1st April 1965 in relation to rates made in respect of a rate
period beginning before that date as regards hereditaments in such an area
shall be taken by the council of the London borough specified in respect of
such area in column (4) of the said table, and the reduction made under paragraph
(2) shall not be affected by any such action.
20 
In the London Authorities (Property etc.) Order 1964—
(a) in article 5(1), for sub-paragraph (c)
there shall be substituted—“
(c) and land
which immediately before 1st April 1965 is held for the purposes of functions
as such a local authority as aforesaid by the council of a county borough,
metropolitan borough or county district whose area falls wholly within a London
borough;
(cc) any land within the London borough
of Redbridge which immediately before 1st April 1965 is held for the purposes
of functions as such a local authority as aforesaid by the urban district
council of Chigwell;”;
(b) in article 20, 
“London” shall be omitted;
(c) in article 21(1)—
(i) for 
“general account” there shall be substituted 
“general county account”; and
(ii) at the end, there
shall be added—“
and the London borough of Richmond
upon Thames shall be deemed to comprise only the area of the existing boroughs
of Barnes and Richmond
”;
(d) in article 24(3), 
“and insurance fund” shall be omitted; and
(e) in article 33, for 
“column (2)”, there shall be substituted 
“column (3)”.
Given under the official seal of the Minister of Housing and
Local Government on 26th January 1965.
R. H. S. Crossman
Minister of Housing and Local Government

SCHEDULE


(1) (2)
The London County Council The Greater London Council
The county council of Middlesex
The council of the metropolitan borough of Westminster,
Paddington or St. Marylebone The council of the new city Westminster
The council of the metropolitan borough of Hampstead, Holborn
or St. Pancras The council of the London borough of Camden
The council of the metropolitan borough of Finsbury or Islington
 The council of the London borough of Islington
The council of the metropolitan borough of Hackney, Shoreditch
or Stoke Newington The council of the London borough of Hackney
The council of the metropolitan borough of Bethnal Green,
Poplar or Stepney The council of the London borough of Tower Hamlets
The council of the metropolitan borough of Greenwich or
Woolwich The council of the London borough of Greenwich
The council of the metropolitan borough of Deptford or Lewisham
 The council of the London borough of Lewisham
The council of the metropolitan borough of Bermondsey, Camberwell
or Southwark The council of the London borough of Southwark
The council of the metropolitan borough of Lambeth The council of the London borough of Lambeth
The council of the metropolitan borough of Battersea or
Wandsworth The council of the London borough of Wandsworth
The council of the metropolitan borough of Fulham or Hammersmith
 The council of the London borough of Hammersmith
The council of the metropolitan borough of Chelsea or Kensington
 The council of the Royal borough of Kensington and Chelsea

The council of the borough of Chingford, Leyton or Walthamstow
 The council of the London borough of Waltham Forest
The council of the borough of Ilford or Wanstead and Woodford
 The council of the London borough of Redbridge
The council of the borough of Romford The council of the London borough of Havering
The council of the urban district of Hornchurch
The council of the borough of Barking or Dagenham The council of the London borough of Barking
The council of the borough of East Ham or West Ham The council of the London borough of Newham
The council of the borough of Bexley or Erith The council of the London borough of Bexley
The council of the urban district of Crayford or Chislehurst
and Sidcup
The council of the borough of Beckenham or Bromley The council of the London borough of Bromley
The council of the urban district of Orpington or Penge

The council of the existing borough of Croydon The council of the London borough of Croydon
The council of the urban district of Coulsdon and Purley

The council of the borough of Beddington and Wallington
or Sutton and Cheam The council of the London borough of Sutton
The council of the urban district of Carshalton
The council of the borough of Mitcham or Wimbledon The council of the London borough of Merton
The council of the urban district of Merton and Morden
The council of the existing borough of Kingston-upon-Thames,
Malden and Coombe or Surbiton The council of the Royal borough of Kingston upon Thames

The council of the borough of Barnes, Richmond or Twickenham
 The council of the London borough of Richmond upon Thames

The council of the borough of Brentford and Chiswick or
Heston and Isleworth The council of the London borough of Hounslow
The council of the urban district of Feltham
The council of the borough of Uxbridge
The council of the urban district of Hayes and Harlington,
Ruislip-Northwood or Yiewsley and West Drayton The council of the London borough of Hillingdon
The council of the borough of Acton, Ealing or Southall
 The council of the London borough of Ealing
The council of the borough of Wembley or Willesden The council of the London borough of Brent
The council of the existing borough of Harrow The council of the London borough of Harrow
The council of the borough of Finchley or Hendon
The council of the urban district of Barnet, East Barnet
or Friern Barnet The council of the London borough of Barnet
The council of the borough of Hornsey, Tottenham or Wood
Green The council of the London borough of Haringey
The council of the borough of Edmonton, Enfield or Southgate
 The council of the London borough of Enfield