London Government Act 1963

45Local health authorities

(1)Subject to section 19(2) and (3) of the National Health Service Act 1946 (which relate to joint boards and health committees of local health authorities) and subject to subsection (3) of this section, the local health authority for each London borough shall be the council of that borough and for the City shall be the Common Council.

(2)It shall be the duty of every local health authority in Greater London (so far as concerns the functions conferred or imposed on them by virtue of subsection (1) of this section) to continue to provide for their area on and after 1st April 1965 the services corresponding (with any necessary modifications) with the services which were required or authorised to be provided for that area immediately before that date by the local health authority or authorities for the whole or any part of that area in pursuance of Part III of the said Act of 1946 and of any proposals or arrangements thereunder ; and—

(a)any such proposals and arrangements in force immediately before that date shall continue in force accordingly until revoked or modified by further proposals or arrangements under the said Part III;

(b)such further proposals or, as the case may be, particulars of such further arrangements shall be submitted to the Minister of Health by each local health authority in Greater London within such period after 1st April 1965 as that Minister may direct.

(3)In its application to Greater London, section 27 of the said Act of 1946 (which imposes a duty on local health authorities to provide ambulance services) shall have effect as if for any reference to the local health authority there were substituted a reference to the Greater London Council; and so far as concerns the duty imposed on that Council by virtue of this subsection—

(a)subsection (2) of this section shall apply to that Council as it applies, so far as concerns functions conferred or imposed by virtue of subsection (1) of this section, to a local health authority;

(b)the following provisions shall apply to that council as if they were the local health authority for the whole of Greater London, that is to say—

(i)in the said Act of 1946, sections 2, 20, 57, 58, 63, 65, 66, 71, 72 and 74;

(ii)section 24 of the National Health Service (Amendment) Act 1949;

(iii)the National Health Service (Amendment) Act 1957.

(4)The Greater London Council shall have the like powers of contributing to voluntary organisations as are conferred on local health authorities by sections 22(5) and 28(3) of the said Act of 1946.

(5)Section 55(1) of the said Act of 1946 (which relates to the accounts of local health authorities who are county borough councils) shall apply to the Common Council as it applies to a county borough council.

(6)In section 79(1) of the said Act of 1946, in the definition of " local authority ", for the words " metropolitan borough " there shall be substituted the words " London borough, the Greater London Council "; and in section 20 (2) (c) of that Act and in paragraph 6 of Part II of Schedule 4 to that Act, for the words " forming part of " there shall be substituted the words " the whole or part of which is included in ",

(7)In paragraph 2 of Part II of Schedule 4 to the said Act of 1946, any reference to the council of a county borough shall be construed as including a reference to the council of a London borough and to the Common Council.