London Government Act 1963

PART III The Road Traffic Act 1962

1 (1) In section 11 (2) (a), the words "or any road in the London Traffic Area " shall be omitted.

(2) After section 11 (2) (a), there shall be inserted—

“(aa) as respects any road in Greater London other than a trunk road, shall be either the appropriate Minister or the Greater London Council; and”.

(3) In section 11 (3)—

(a) after the word " authority" where first occurring there shall be inserted the words " or by the Greater London Council ";

(b) after the word " authority" in the second place where it occurs there shall be inserted the words " or that Council ",

(4) In section 11 (4) (a), after the word " authority " where first occurring there shall be inserted the words " or the Greater London Council ",

(5) For section 11 (4) (b) there shall be substituted—

“(b) unless the road is a trunk road, the appropriate Minister shall give notice of his intention to make the order, in the case of a road in Greater London, to the Greater London Council or, in any other case, to the local authority.”

2 In section 26—

(a) for the words from the beginning to " Committee)" there shall be substituted the words " An order under section 34 of the principal Act or section .10 (1) of the London Government Act 1963 ";

(b) for the word "regulations" in the last two places where that word occurs there shall be substituted the word " order ";

(c) for the words from " in accordance " to " Act " where next occurring there shall be substituted the words " the Greater London Council ".

3 (1) In section 28 (1)—

(a) in paragraph (a), for the words " the London Traffic Area " there shall be substituted the words " Greater London ";

(b) for paragraph (b) there shall be substituted—

“(b) as respects traffic on roads in Greater London, as may be made by an order under section 34 of that Act or section 10 (1) of the London Government Act 1963”.

(2) For section 28 (2) there shall be substituted—

“(2) The authority having power to make an experimental traffic order—

(a) as respects roads outside Greater London, other than trunk roads, shall be the local authority ;

(b) as respects roads in Greater London, other than trunk roads, shall be the Greater London Council or, subject to section 11 (2) of the London Government Act 1963, the appropriate Minister ;

(c) as respects any trunk road in Greater London, shall be the appropriate Minister or, with the consent of that Minister, the Greater London Council;

(d) as respects trunk roads outside Greater London, shall be the appropriate Minister ;

and the appropriate Minister may, after giving the local authority or the Greater London Council notice of his intention to do so, by order vary or revoke any experimental traffic order made by the local authority or that Council.”

(3) In section 28 (3) (b), after the word " Minister " there shall be inserted the words " or by the Greater London Council ",

(4) In section 28 (9), for the words from " by " onwards there shall be substituted the words " as respects a road in Greater London as it applies in relation to an order under section 34 of the principal Act or section 10 (1) of the London Government Act 1963 ",

(5) In section 28 (11) (b), for the words "the London Traffic Area " there shall be substituted the words " Greater London ",

4 (1) For section 34 (1), there shall be substituted—

“(1) For the purposes of the following provisions, that is to say—

(a) sections 20 (3) and 34 (1) of the principal Act;

(b) sections 11 (1) and 28 of this Act; and

(c) section 10 (1) of the London Government Act 1963,

where any part of the width of a road is in Greater London, the whole width thereof shall be deemed to be in Greater London.”

(2) In section 34 (5), for the words " metropolitan borough " there shall be substituted the words " London borough ",

5 In section 35, for the words " other than section 34 " there shall be substituted the words " otherwise than by virtue of section 34 of this Act ",