London Local Authorities Act 1995

Part VI Miscellaneous

44 Appointment of deputies

(1) A participating council may appoint one or more members of the council to act as deputy to the member appointed by them to the fire authority, and shall notify that authority of any such appointment and, if more than one appointment is made, of the order of priority as between each such deputy.

(2) If a member appointed to the fire authority ceases to be a member of that authority the appointment of any deputy under this section by the participating council which appointed that member shall continue to have full effect, as if the member had continued to be a member.

(3) If the member appointed to the fire authority is not present at a meeting of that authority or at part of such a meeting, the deputy or one of the deputies to that member, duly notified to the authority under subsection (1) above, may attend that meeting or that part of that meeting in his place as if he were the member appointed to that authority.

(4) Where a participating council have appointed more than one deputy under subsection (1) above, the right of a deputy under subsection (3) above shall be exercisable in accordance with the order of priority notified by the appointing council.

(5) The enactments referred to in the Schedule to this Act shall apply to deputies appointed under this section as if they were appointed under Part IV of the [1985 c. 51.] Local Government Act 1985.

(6) A participating council may appoint one or more members of the council to act as deputy to the member appointed by them to the London Waste Regulation Authority, and the foregoing provisions of this section shall apply with the necessary modifications in respect of such appointment.

(7) Notwithstanding anything in subsection (3) above a deputy may not preside at a meeting of the fire authority.

45 Cinema licence fees

Section 3 (8) of the [1985 c. 13.] Cinemas Act 1985 (which relates to the grant, etc., of licences for film exhibitions) in its application to a participating council shall have effect as though—

(a) after the word “cases” in both places where that word occurs there were inserted the words “or areas”; and

(b) at the end there were inserted the words “and may make provision for different fees in the case of grants from those in the case of renewals”.

46 Application of London Local Authorities Act 1991 to City of London

Part III (Entertainment) of the [1991 c. xvii.] London Local Authorities Act 1991 shall apply to the City of London as if it were a London borough and the Common Council were the council of that borough.

47 Special treatment: acupuncture, etc

When a participating council have appointed a day for the purposes of Part II (Special treatment premises) of the London Local Authorities Act 1991, they may serve notice on any person registered by them under section 19 (Acupuncturists, tattooists and cosmetic piercers) of the Greater London Council (General Powers) Act 1981 notifying him of the repeal of that section and terminating his registration under that section from a date specified in the notice, being not less than six months after the date of service of the notice.

48 Offences by bodies corporate

(1) Where an offence under this Act committed by a body corporate is proved to have been committed with the consent or connivance of, or to be attributable to any neglect on the part of, any director, manager, secretary or other similar officer of the body corporate or any person who was purporting to act in any such capacity, he, as well as the body corporate, shall be guilty of that offence and shall be liable to be proceeded against and punished accordingly.

(2) Where the affairs of a body corporate are managed by its members subsection (1) above shall apply to the acts and defaults of a member in connection with his function of management as if he were a director of the body corporate.