50Explosives and petroleum spirit
(1)Subject to subsection (3) of this section, the council of a London borough shall be the local authority for the borough for the purposes of the Explosives Acts 1875 and 1923 and the Fireworks Act 1951.
(2)Subject to subsection (3) of this section, the Greater London Council shall be the local authority empowered to grant petroleum-spirit licences as respects Greater London under the Petroleum (Consolidation) Act 1928 ; and accordingly for section 2(1)(a) and (b) of that Act there shall be substituted—
“(a)in Greater London, the Greater London Council”.
(3)Subsections (1) and (2) of this section shall not affect the jurisdiction exercisable in any harbour wholly or partly in Greater London by a harbour authority within the meaning of the Explosives Act 1875 or, as the case may be, the Petroleum (Consolidation) Act 1928.