London County Council (General Powers) Act 1958
| Jurisdiction | England & Wales |
| Citation | 1958 c. xxi |
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London County Council
Ch. x
(General Powers)
Act, 1958
CHAPTER xxi
An Act to confer further powers upon the London County
Council and other authorities and for other purposes.
[7th July 1958.]
V¥7HEREAS—
(1) It is expedient that the London County Council (hereinafter
referred to as " the Council") should be empowered to acquire
for the purposes mentioned in section 5 (Power to acquire lands)
of
this
Act the lands in the city of Westminster referred to in that
section:
(2) It is expedient that powers should be conferred on the
Council the common council of the city of London and metro-
politan borough councils for the compulsory acquisition of lands
within
the
administrative county of London (hereinafter referred to
as"
the county ") for or in connection with the execution of street
improvements and that the powers of those authorities to acquire
lands compulsorily under the Act 57 George 3 chapter xxix
(commonly known as the Metropolitan Paving Act 1817) should
be repealed:
(3) It is expedient that provision should be made enabling
certain functions of the Council under Part III of the Town and
Country Planning Act 1947 and section 89 of the National Parks
and Access to the Countryside Act 1949 to be delegated to
metropolitan borough councils as by this Act provided:
(4) It is expedient that provision should be made enabling
certain functions of the Council under the London Building
Acts
1930
to 1939 as amended by subsequent Acts to be delegated
to metropolitan borough councils and the common council of
the city of London and that certain other functions of
the
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under those Acts should be transferred to those authorities as
by this Act provided:
(5) It is expedient that certain functions of the Council under
section
38
of the Shops Act 1950 should be transferred to sanitary
authorities (other than the said common council) as by this Act
provided:
(6) It is expedient that metropolitan borough councils should
be empowered to borrow money by means of the issue of stock
and bonds:
(7) It is expedient that the powers of the Council and of
metropolitan borough councils in relation to the investment of
moneys forming part of the superannuation funds maintained
by them should be extended as by this Act provided:
(8) It is expedient that the Council should be empowered to
pay allowances to persons displaced from land or buildings by
reason of action taken by the Council:
(9) It is expedient that the law relating to the payments to be
made to the Council in respect of apparatus in subways of the
Council to which the London County Council (Subways) Act 1893
applies should be amended as by this Act provided:
(10) It is expedient that the mayor aldermen and councillors
of the metropolitan borough of Woolwich (hereinafter referred
to as " the Woolwich Council ") should be empowered to advance
money to the purchaser or lessee of any land acquired from or
leased by the Woolwich Council for the purpose of assisting
him to build on such land or to improve any existing building
thereon:
(11) It is expedient that the powers conferred on metropolitan
borough councils to sell and dispose of house refuse and to
execute drainage works by agreement with the owners and
occupiers of
premises
should be extended as by this Act provided:
(12) The time limited by certain enactments for the com-
pulsory purchase of lands by the Council will shortly expire and
it is expedient that the time so limited should be extended as by
this Act provided:
(13) It is expedient that provision should be made for enabling
the period of operation of any authorisation given to the Council
under section 1 of the Housing (Temporary Accommodation)
Act 1945 as to the use of open spaces for temporary housing
accommodation to be further extended:
(14) It is expedient that powers should be conferred on
metropolitan borough councils with respect to crossings for
vehicles over footways:
(15) It is expedient that metropolitan borough councils
should be authorised to use certain vehicles and appliances on
footways:
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(16) It is expedient that the powers of library authorities
within the county should be defined or extended as in this Act
provided:
(17) Rights of appeal against certain decisions of metropolitan
borough councils relating to street trading are contained in the
London County Council (General Powers) Act 1947 and the
London County Council (General Powers) Act 1957 and it is
expedient that when notifying the persons concerned of such
decisions metropolitan borough councils should also notify
those persons of the said rights of appeal:
(18) It is expedient that the Church of England chapel vested
in the mayor aldermen and councillors of the metropolitan
borough of Fulham (hereinafter referred to as " the Fulham
Council") and situate in the Fulham Palace Road Cemetery
should be freed from the act or consequences of the consecration
thereof:
(19) It is expedient that the other provisions contained in this
Act should be enacted:
(20) The objects aforesaid cannot be attained without the
authority of Parliament:
(21) A plan showing the lands which may be acquired or used
compulsorily by the Council under the powers of this Act and a
book of reference to such plan containing the names of the
owners and lessees or reputed owners and lessees and of the
occupiers of such lands have been deposited with the clerk of the
Council and are in this Act referred to respectively as the deposited
plan and the deposited book of reference:
(22) In relation to the promotion of the Bill for this Act the
Council (as respects the appropriate provisions of the Bill) have
complied with the requirements of section 151 of the London
Government Act 1939 and the Woolwich Council and the Fulham
Council (as respects the provisions of the Bill relating exclusively
to those councils) have complied with the requirements of
sections 151 and 152 of that Act as amended by the London
County Council (General Powers) Act 1948:
May it therefore please Your Majesty that it may be enacted
and be it enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty by and
with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal
and Commons in this present Parliament assembled and by the
authority of the same as follows (that is to say):—
PART I
PRELIMINARY
1.
This Act may be cited as the London County Council Short title.
(General Powers) Act 1958. -
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