HC Deb 25 July 1963 vol 681 cc1875-6

Lords Amendment: In line 26, at end insert new Clause A: A.—(1) Where, in the case of any Green Belt land within the meaning of the Green Belt (London and Home Counties) Act 1938, immediately before 1st April 1965—

  1. (a) that land, not being land to which section 78(1) of this Act applies, was vested in the London or Middlesex county council; or
  2. (b) any functions, rights or liabilities were exercisable with respect to that land by either of those councils,
then on that date that land shall vest in, or, as the case may be, those functions, rights and liabilities shall become functions, rights and liabilities of, the Greater London Council. (2) In the said Act of 1938—
  1. (a) in section 2(1), in the definition of 'the area', for the words from 'London' onwards there shall be substituted the words 'and Surrey, and Greater London';
  2. (b) the expression 'local authority' shall include the Greater London Council;
  3. (c) the expression 'contributing local authority' in relation to any land in relation to which, if this Act had not been passed, any existing council to whom section 3(1)(b) of this Act applies would have been such an authority, shall, if that existing council is the London or Middlesex county council, include the Greater London Council or, in any other case, include the London borough council whose area includes the whole or any part of the area of that existing council;
  4. (d) in sections 5, 6, 12, 15 and 32, the expression 'the county council' in relation to any land in Greater London shall mean the Greater London Council;
  5. (e) in section 17(7) for the words 'county or borough or district or parish' there shall be substituted the word' area'."

7.30 p.m.

Mr. Corfield

I beg to move, That this House doth agree with the Lords in the said Amendment.

This is the new Clause A to which I referred, which transfers to the Greater London Council all the functions, rights and liabilities of the London and Middlesex County Councils under the Green Belt Act, 1938. It covers the same ground as some Amendments moved by hon. Members opposite, which were tabled both in this House and in another place, and it makes good an undertaking which my right hon. Friend gave in Committee on 19th March.

Question put and agreed to.