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1.—(1) This Order may be cited as the London Government (Various Provisions) Order 2000 and shall come into force on 24th April 2000.
(2) For the purposes of this Order—
(a)“the 1999 Act” means the Greater London Authority Act 1999;
(b)“the operative date”—
(i)in relation to the Greater London Authority, means 8th May 2000, and
(ii)in relation to the London Development Agency, means 3rd July 2000; and
(c)a reference to a relevant body is a reference to the Greater London Authority or the London Development Agency.
2.—(1) Arrangements in relation to a relevant body as to any matter specified in the Schedule to this Order made, before the operative date, by the chief finance officer, shall have effect on and after that date until replaced or altered by that body.
(2) In this article “chief finance officer” in relation to a relevant body means the person who is, by virtue of his appointment under section 407 of the 1999 Act, for the time being the chief finance officer of the body.
3.—(1) For the purposes of section 52 of the 1999 Act, the first meeting of the Assembly shall be held in accordance with standing orders prepared for the purposes of this article by the head of paid service.
(2) The standing orders prepared in accordance with paragraph (1) shall provide for—
(a)giving notice of the meeting;
(b)preparation of the agenda for the meeting;
(c)election of the Chair and Deputy Chair of the Assembly;
(d)declaration of the results of those elections;
(e)the meeting to be chaired by the head of paid service until those results have been declared; and
(f)preparation of minutes of the meeting.
(3) In this article “the head of paid service” means the person who is, by virtue of his appointment under section 407 of the 1999 Act, for the time being head of the Greater London Authority’s paid service.
4.—(1) The records specified in paragraph (2) shall not be treated as public records for the purposes of the Public Records Act 1958(1).
(2) The records are—
(a)records held by the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions and transferred to him by a transfer scheme under section 409 of the 1999 Act made in consequence of any of the following provisions of that Act—
(i)section 349 (abolition of joint planning committee for Greater London);
(ii)section 374 (abolition of London Ecology Committee);
(iii)section 396(10) (revocation of scheme about research and collection of information under section 88(1) of the Local Government Act 1985(2)); and
(b)records created before 3rd July 2000 by persons who entered the employment of the Secretary of State pursuant to any such transfer scheme—
(i)exclusively in connection with any purpose of the 1999 Act, and
(ii)before 3rd July 2000.
Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions
Keith Hill
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State,
Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions
3rd April 2000
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