London Government Act 1963

49Civil defence

(1)Subject to subsection (2) of this section, the functions conferred or imposed by or by virtue of any provision of the Civil Defence Acts 1937 and 1939 or of regulations under the Civil Defence Act 1948 on a local authority within the meaning of that provision or on a council of a specified description shall—

(a)if expressed to be conferred or imposed on a fire authority or if relating to ambulance services or a service for the collection and removal of casualties or to the section of the Civil Defence Corps formed for stretcher bearing and giving first aid, be exercisable throughout Greater London by the Greater London Council;

(b)if relating to the making and carrying out of plans for the dispersal of members of the civil population or for their maintenance and temporary accommodation when dispersed, be exercisable as respects a London borough or the City by the Greater London Council as well as by the council of the borough or the Common Council, as the case may be;

(c)in any other case be exercisable as respects a London borough by the council of that borough and as respects the City by the Common Council;

and accordingly any reference in the said Acts of 1937 and 1939 and in those regulations to a local authority or a council of a specified description shall, so far as relates to the exercise of any such function in Greater London, be construed as a reference to the council or councils to whom the function is transferred by this subsection.

(2)The foregoing subsection shall not apply to functions conferred or imposed on police authorities, statutory water undertakers or sewerage authorities.

(3)For the purpose of determining whether any, and if so what, deduction should be made from grants payable in accordance with regulations under section 3 of the Civil Defence Act 1948 to a local authority to whom functions are transferred by subsection (1) of this section from another authority, any land or article acquired by, or article provided for, that other authority for the purposes of those functions shall be treated as having been acquired or, as the case may be, provided for the first-mentioned authority for those purposes.

(4)Any power to vary or revoke regulations made under the Civil Defence Act 1948 shall include power to amend or repeal subsections (1) and (3) of this section so far as those subsections amend those regulations.

(5)For section 58 (4) of the Civil Defence Act 1939 there shall be substituted the following subsection:—

“(4)The Greater London Council may be authorised by a scheme submitted by them under this section to exercise, for the purpose of securing supplies of water for extinguishing fires in Greater London caused by hostile attack, any powers exercisable under paragraph 1(1) of Part III of Schedule 9 to the London Government Act 1963 in connection with the functions there mentioned, and to exercise those powers in any part of Greater London, notwithstanding that it is outside the sewerage area of the Greater London Council as defined by section 39 of that Act, and without compliance with any requirement mentioned in paragraph 1(4) of the said Part III; and where they are authorised to exercise such powers paragraph 9 of the said Part III shall apply accordingly”;

and in section 58(5) of the said Act of 1939 for the reference to the London county council there shall be substituted a reference to the Greater London Council.

(6)In section 33(4)(a) of the Civil Defence Act 1939 (as amended by Part III of Schedule 1 to the Public Health Act 1961) for the words " outside the administrative county of London " there shall be substituted the words " outside Greater London and in the outer London boroughs ",