London Government Act 1963

7 (1) In considering for the purposes of paragraphs 5 and 6 of this Schedule the boundaries of any electoral area or the number of councillors of the Council to be elected for any borough or other area, the Secretary of State and, so far as those matters fall to be considered by him, any commissioner appointed by virtue of paragraph 8 of this Schedule—

(a) shall ensure that the whole of the City and the Temples is included with part of borough 1 in the same electoral area and that each other electoral area lies wholly within a single London borough;

(b) shall- ensure that where a London borough does not include any part of a parliamentary constituency of which part is included in some other London borough, county borough or county district, each parliamentary constituency within the borough shall be an electoral area ; and

(c) in any case not falling within paragraph (b) of this sub-paragraph shall, subject to paragraph (a) thereof, ensure, so far as reasonably practicable and taking into account any change in the number or distribution of the inhabitants of Greater London likely to take place within the period of five years immediately following the consideration—

(i) that the number of local government electors in any one electoral area in the borough is as nearly as may be the same as the number of such electors in the other electoral areas in the borough and, so far as the operation of the other provisions of this paragraph permits, the same as the average number of such electors in each electoral area of Greater London ; and

(ii) subject to sub-paragraph (i) of this paragraph, that each electoral area in the borough consists of two or more complete wards of the borough ;

and shall have regard to the desirability of fixing boundaries which are easily identifiable and to any local ties which have been or would be broken by the fixing of any particular boundary.

(2) For the purposes of sub-paragraph (1)(b) and (c) of this paragraph, the City and the Temples shall be deemed to form part of borough 1, and to constitute a complete ward of that borough.

(3) For the purposes of sub-paragraph (1)(c) of this paragraph, the average number of local government electors in each electoral area in Greater London on any date shall be taken to be a number obtained by dividing the aggregate number of local government electors registered on that date in the several registers of local government electors for Greater London by the number of electoral areas in Greater London existing on that date.