The Greater London Council shall establish an organisation for the purpose of conducting, or assisting in the conducting of, investigations into, and the collection of information relating to, any matters concerning Greater London or any part thereof and making, or assisting in the making of, arrangements whereby any such information and the results of any such investigation are made available to any authority concerned with local government in Greater London, any government department or the public; and without prejudice to the foregoing provisions of this subsection the Greater London Council shall be a local authority for the purposes of sections 134 and 135 of the Local Government Act 1948 (which relate respectively to information centres and to instruction and information on questions relating to local government).

The appropriate Minister with respect to any matter may require the Greater London Council to provide him with any information with respect to that matter which is in the possession of, or available to, that Council, any London borough council or the Common Council in consequence of the exercise of any power conferred by or under any enactment; and where such a requirement is made in respect of any information which is so in the possession of, or available to, any London borough council or the Common Council but not the Greater London Council, the Greater London Council may require that borough council or, as the case may be, the Common Council to furnish the Greater London Council with that information.