London Government Act 1963

54Food, drugs, markets and animals

(1)The council of a London borough shall, as respects that borough, be—

(a)both the food and drugs authority and the local authority for the purposes of the Food and Drugs Act 1955 ;

(b)the authority responsible for enforcing section 31 of that Act (which prohibits the sale of milk from diseased cows); and

(c)the local authority for the purposes of the Slaughter-houses Act 1958 and the Slaughter of Animals Act 1958;

and the Common Council shall, as respects the City, be the authority responsible for enforcing the said section 31 and the local authority for the purposes of each of the said Acts of 1958 ; and in the said Act of 1955 Part III (which relates to the provision and regulation of markets) shall extend to all the London boroughs, Part IV (which relates to slaughterhouses, knackers' yards, and cold-air stores) shall extend to the whole of Greater London, and so much of section 15(2) as restricts the power of local authorities in London to make byelaws under that section shall cease to have effect.

(2)Notwithstanding anything in subsection (1) of this section, neither the council of any London borough nor the Common Council shall be required to carry out a review of, or submit a report on, slaughterhouse facilities under section 3 of the Slaughterhouses Act 1958, and section 4(3) of that Act shall not apply to any such council; but—

(a)in relation to the council of an inner London borough or the Common Council, section 4 (1) and (2) of that Act shall have effect as if the following provisions thereof were omitted, that is to say—

(i)in the said section 4 (1), the words from the beginning to " last foregoing section" and paragraphs (a) and (b);

(ii)in the said section 4 (2), the words from " after " to " apply and " ;

(b)in relation to the council of an outer London borough, sections 4(1) and (2) and 6(1) of that Act shall have effect as if any report submitted under section 3 of that Act which relates, or so far as it relates, to the area of that borough had been submitted by that council and any application refused under the said section 6(1) by the authority by whom that report was submitted had been so refused by that council.

(3)For the purposes of the Diseases of Animals Act 1950—

(a)subject to paragraph (b) of this subsection, the council of a London borough shall be the local authority for the borough;

(b)for the purpose of the provisions of that Act relating to imported animals, the Common Council shall be the local authority in and for the whole of Greater London.

(4)The Diseases of Animals Act 1950, the Food and Drugs Act 1955 and the Slaughter of Animals Act 1958 shall have effect subject to the modifications specified in relation thereto in Parts I, II and III respectively of Schedule 13 to this Act, being modifications consequential on the foregoing provisions of this section.