
1 
This order may be cited as the London
Government Order 1970, and shall come into
operation on 1st March 1970.
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 City”
means the City of London; and
 “the Common Council”
 means the Common Council of the City
of London.
(3) In this order, unless the context otherwise
requires, references to any enactment shall be construed as references to
that enactment as amended, extended or applied by or under any other enactment.

3 

(1) In the 
Electricity (Supply) Act 1919, in 
section 21, the reference to the local planning
authority within the meaning of the 
Town and Country Planning Act 1947 shall be
construed, in relation to land in a London borough or in the City, as including
a reference to the Greater London Council but not to the borough council or
to the Common Council.
(2) In the 
Children and Young Persons Act 1933, in 
section 12(5), after “county borough”
 where first occurring there shall be inserted “or the
Greater London Council”.
(3) In the 
Crown Lands Act 1936, in section 2(4)
, for “the London County Council”
 there shall be substituted “the Greater London Council”
.
(4) In the 
Water Act 1945, in Schedule 3, in paragraph
94(1), there shall be added “or
where they supply, or propose to supply, water, or have, or propose to construct,
any waterworks, in Greater London, with the clerk to the Greater London Council”
.
(5) In the 
Marriage Act 1949, in section 57(4)
, for the words following “the
certified copy” there shall be substituted—“
and that sum shall be reimbursed to the superintendent
registrar—


(a) in the case of a registration district
in the City of London, the Inner Temple and the Middle Temple, by the Common
Council of the City of London;
(b) in any other case, by the council of
the county, county borough or London borough in which his registration district
is situated
”.
(6) In section
42 of the London County Council (General
Powers) Act 1953 (which makes provision as to the proof
of resolutions passed, orders made and reports received by the Greater London
Council and the councils of the inner London boroughs and of appointments
of officers made and authorities to officers given by such councils)—

(a) in subsections
(1) and (2)—
for “the council or a committee thereof”
there shall be substituted “the council, or a predecessor, or
a committee of any such body”;for “the council or committee” there
shall be substituted “the council, or predecessor, or committee”
;
(b) in subsection
(3), there shall be added—“

 and “predecessor”
 means, in the case of any council named
in column (1) of the following table, a council specified in respect of such
council in column (2).

(1) (2)
The Greater London Council The London County CouncilThe county
council of Middlesex
The council
of the London borough of Camden The council
of the metropolitan borough of Hampstead, Holborn or St. Pancras
The council of the London borough of
Greenwich The council of the metropolitan
borough of Greenwich or Woolwich

The council of the London borough of Hackney 
The council of the metropolitan borough of Hackney, Shoreditch or Stoke Newington

The council of the London
borough of Hammersmith The council of
the metropolitan borough of Fulham or Hammersmith
The council of the London borough of Islington The council of the metropolitan borough of Finsbury
or Islington
The council of
the Royal borough of Kensington and Chelsea 
The council of the metropolitan borough of Chelsea or Kensington
The council of the London borough of
Lambeth The council of the metropolitan
borough of Lambeth
The council
of the London borough of Lewisham The
council of the metropolitan borough of Deptford or Lewisham
The council of the London borough of Southwark
 The council of the metropolitan borough
of Bermondsey, Camberwell or Southwark
The council of the London borough of Tower Hamlets The council of the metropolitan borough of Bethnal
Green, Poplar or Stepney

The council of the London borough of Wandsworth The council of the metropolitan borough of Battersea or Wandsworth

The council of the City of
Westminster The council of the metropolitan
borough of Westminster, Paddington or St. Marylebone
”.
(7) In the 
Forestry Act 1967, in section 40(2)(c)
, after “parish”,
there shall be inserted “the Greater London Council,”.

(8) The enactments specified in the Schedule
to this order are hereby repealed to the extent mentioned in column (3) thereof.

4 
Where by or under the Act—
(a) a provision of an enactment or instrument
has been repealed or revoked; and
(b) a corresponding provision has been applied
to the relevant area or to any part thereofany reference in any local Act or in any instrument made under
any Act to the provision mentioned in (a) shall, in the application of such
Act or instrument to the relevant area or to such part, as the case may be,
unless the contrary intention appears, be construed as a reference to the
provision mentioned in (b).
In this article—
 “the relevant area” has the meaning assigned to it by 
section 87(9) of the Act; and

 “local Act” includes an Act confirming a provisional order.
5 
All enactments or statutory orders relating to the deposit of plans
or documents, other than those relating to judicial business, shall, in their
application to Greater London, be construed as if the clerk to the Greater
London Council were therein substituted for the clerk of the peace.
When acting under any such enactment or statutory order, the said
clerk shall act under the direction of the Greater London Council.
In this article, “enactment”
 and “statutory order”
 have the same meanings as in the Local Government Act 1933.

6 

(1) In paragraph
14(5) of Part III of Schedule 9 to the Act
(which as extended to the City by the 
London Government (No. 2)Order 1965 enables the drainage in common of certain
houses to be required by the council of an inner London borough or the Common
Council), there shall be added—“
In this sub-paragraph, 
“house” includes a school
and also a factory or other building in which persons are employed and, in
relation to a house as hereinbefore defined, includes the curtilage thereof
.
”.
(2) Paragraph
14(6) of the said Part III shall apply to the
City and in such application the reference to a borough council shall be read
as a reference to the Common Council.
7 
Section 75
of the Act (which makes provision for compensation for injury to or the death
of officers), in its application to the Greater London Council, shall, in
so far as it empowers the increase of compensation paid by periodical payments,
extend to any officer of the London County Council, or to any widow or widower
or child of any such officer, to whom compensation was being paid immediately
before 1st April 1965 under 
section 44 of the London County Council
(General Powers) Act 1895 or 
section 92 of the London Government
Act 1939.
The said section
shall also extend to the payment of compensation to the widow or widower or
child of any such officer.
8 
In relation to—
(a) any functions of the Greater London Council
delegated to the Common Council under section
5(1) of the Act;
(b) any administrative, clerical, professional,
scientific or technical services undertaken by the Common Council for the
Greater London Council under section 5(3)(a)
 of the Act,
but subject in the case of item (a) to any restrictions
or conditions imposed by the Greater London Council under the said 
section 5(1), sections 276
(Power of local authority to prosecute or defend legal proceedings) and 
277 (Appearance of local authority in legal proceedings)
of the Local Government Act 1933
shall apply to the Common Council as if it were a local authority within the
meaning of that Act.
9 
In any provision specified in column (1) of the following table,
for the words specified in respect of such provision in column (2) there shall
be substituted the words so specified in column (3).

(1) (2) (3)
Section 30(5) of
the Wimbledon and Putney Commons Act 1871 “the chairman of the Court of Quarter Sessions
for the county of Surrey” “the
chairman of the court of quarter sessions for the south-west London area”

Clause 27 of the scheme approved
by the Metropolitan Commons
(Mitcham) Supplemental Act 1891 “the chairman of quarter sessions for the
county of Surrey” 
do.
Clause 20 of the scheme
approved by the Metropolitan
Commons (Harrow Weald) Supplemental Act 1899 “the Chairman of Quarter Sessions for the
county of Middlesex” “the
chairman of the court of quarter sessions for the Middlesex area”
10 
The power of electing five wardens, namely the Warden of the Great
Account, the Renter Warden, the College Warden, the Bell Warden and the Newcomen's
Warden, of the corporation of wardens of the parish of St. Saviour, Southwark,
shall be exercisable by the council of the London borough of Southwark.
An appointment of a person to be such a warden shall not be made
except on the nomination of councillors for the ward or wards consisting of
or comprising the area of the parish of St. Saviour, Southwark, as existing
in the metropolitan borough of Southwark until 31st March 1930:
Provided that if in any case such councillors fail to
make a nomination within one calendar month from the time for which a meeting
of the councillors was first summoned for the purpose, the council may make
the appointment without any such nomination.
A nomination under this article shall be made in accordance with
rules made or approved by the Charity Commissioners.
11 

(1) In the 
Southwark (Borough Market) Scheme 1907—
(a) in the sixth recital, “(which
council is in this Scheme referred to as the Borough Council)”
shall be omitted;
(b) in section
2(1), for “the said St. Saviour's
Ward” there shall be substituted “the ward or wards
consisting of or comprising the specified area”;
(c) in section
2(3), for “a ratepayer of the
parish of St. Saviour” there shall be substituted “a
ratepayer of the specified area”;
(d) in section
6—
(i) for “in relief of the rates
of the parish of St. Saviour” there shall be substituted 
“in relief of the rates chargeable on hereditaments in the specified
area”; and
(ii) for “over the parish of
St. Saviour” there shall be substituted “over the
specified area”;
(e) in section
10 the following paragraph shall be inserted—
“
(2A) In the foregoing sections
of this Scheme—
 “Borough Council”
means the council of the London borough of Southwark
; and
 “the specified area”
 means the area of the parish of St.
Saviour, Southwark, as existing in the metropolitan borough of Southwark until
31st March 1930.”;”;
(f) in rule
1 in the Schedule, for “councillors
of St. Saviour's ward” there shall be substituted “councillors
of the ward or wards described in section 2(1)
”;
(g) in rule
2 in the Schedule, for “of the
St. Saviour's Ward” there shall be substituted “of
the said ward or wards”, and
(h) in rule
3 in the Schedule, for “four”
 there shall be substituted “two”.
(2) The trustees appointed by the council
of the London borough of Southwark in office at the coming into operation
of this order shall remain in office as if they had been appointed in accordance
with the Southwark (Borough Market) Scheme 1907
 as amended by 
paragraph (1) of this article.
(3) Article
13(a) of the Metropolitan Borough of
Southwark (Union of Parishes) Order 1930 shall
cease to have effect.
12 
The embankment southward of the gardens of the Societies of the
Inner and Middle Temples, respectively, referred to in 
section 29 of the Thames Embankment
Act 1862, the road thereon, and the river Thames
adjoining, to the middle of the river, shall form part of the City.
The boundaries established by this article shall be mered by Ordnance
Survey.
13 

(1) In 
section 3 of the Festival of Britain
(Supplementary Provisions) Act 1949, any reference
to the London County Council shall be construed as a reference to the Greater
London Council.
(2) In relation to the Festival Pleasure
Gardens Pier (being a landing stage constructed by the London County Council
under section 1
of the Public Works (Festival of Britain) Act 1949
as extended by section 7
of the Festival of Britain (Supplementary Provisions) Act
1949), any reference in 
section 1 or 11(9)
of the first-mentioned Act or in section 7
of the Act secondly mentioned to the London County Council shall be construed
as a reference to the Greater London Council.
14 
The liability of the Kent County Council under the agreement made
under section 2
of the Rural Water Supplies and Sewerage Act 1944
with the Orpington Urban District Council in respect of the 
Knockholt sewerage scheme shall cease in respect
of any contributions payable between 31st March 1965 and 1st April 1969.
15 
The Greater London Council may contribute to the London borough
council of Enfield, in respect of expenses incurred by that council in the
relocation of Sumex Paints Ltd. following the acquisition of their premises
(such acquisition and relocation having been approved by the county council
of Middlesex), such sum as may be agreed between the two councils.
Given under the official seal of the Minister of Housing and
Local Government on 12th February 1970.
Anthony Greenwood
Minister of Housing and Local Government

SCHEDULE


(1) (2) (3)
Chapter Short Title Extent of Repeal
1894 c.60 The Merchant Shipping
Act 1894 
In section 214(7),
the words “in the administrative county of London the county
council, and elsewhere”
1906 c.33 The Local Authorities
(Treasury Powers) Act 1906 In section 1(1),
the words “except the London County Council”
1907 c.40
 The 
Notification of Births Act 1907 In any application to Greater London, the whole
ActIn section 2(4)
the words “(other than the county of London)”
1908 c.36
 The 
Small Holdings and Allotments Act 1908 In any application to Greater London, 
section 52(1)
Section 53(1)In 
section 53(4), paragraphs (a)
and (b)
1913 c.19 The Local Government
(Adjustments) Act 1913 The whole Act

1926 c.52 
The Small Holdings and Allotments Act 1926 In any application to Greater London, the words 
“under section fifty-two
of the principal Act” in s.14(4)


1939 c.73 
The Housing (Emergency Powers) Act 1939 In section 3(1A),
the words “the London County Council”