The London Government (Grants and Rates, Etc.) Order 1965

The Interpretation Act 1889 applies to the interpretation of this order as it applies to the interpretation of an Act of Parliament.

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 19591 made by article 13.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

The county councillors of Essex, Kent and Surrey elected at the elections held in March 1965 shall come into office on 1st April 1965.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Subject to the provisions of article 11, this article shall have effect as from 1st April 1965.

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 19598 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.

In the Valuation (Statutory Deductions) Order 1962 14, in article 4, the words “in the administrative county of London as well as elsewhere in England and Wales” shall be omitted.

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.

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.

This article applies to the areas specified in column (2) of the table in article 22 of the London Authorities (Property etc.) Order 1964 15

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.

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.