Citation and commencement

1.  This Order may be cited as the Greater London Authority (Miscellaneous Amendments) Order 2000 and shall come into force on the day after the day on which it is made.

Amendment of enactments

2.  The amendments of the Greater London Authority Act 1999 in Part I of the Schedule and of the Representation of the People Act 1983(2) in Part II of the Schedule shall have effect.

Article 2

SCHEDULE

PART IAMENDMENTS OF THE GREATER LONDON AUTHORITY ACT 1999

1.  The Greater London Authority Act 1999 shall be amended in accordance with the following provisions of this Part of this Schedule.

2.  In section 29 the definitions of “first preference vote”, “the London figure” and “second preference vote” shall be omitted.

3.  In section 35(9) for “section 38” there shall be substituted “sections 38 and 380”.

4.  In section 45(8)—

(a)for “functional body”, where those words first occur, there shall be substituted “person falling within paragraph (b), (c) or (d) of subsection (6) above”; and

(b)in paragraph (a) after “functional body” there shall be inserted “concerned”.

5.—(1) Section 73 shall be amended as follows.

(2) In subsection (6), in the substituted subsection (2) of section 5 of the Local Government and Housing Act 1989(3)—

(a)in paragraph (c) after “section 38” there shall be inserted “or 380”;

(b)in paragraph (g) after “section 38” there shall be inserted “(or in the case of the London Development Agency section 380)”; and

(c)in paragraph (m) after “section 38” there shall be inserted “(or, in the case of a member or member of staff of the London Development Agency, section 380)”.

(3) In subsection (7)(a) after “section 38(1) above” there shall be inserted “or section 380 below”.

(4) In subsection (12) for “nor section 54 above” there shall be substituted “, section 54 above nor section 380 below”.

6.  In section 89(2) for “section 90(2)” there shall be substituted “section 90(1)”.

7.—(1) Section 269 shall be amended as follows.

(2) Section 90GA of the Highways Act 1980(4) as it is to be inserted into that Act by subsection (4) shall be amended as follows.

(3) In section 90GA(1) for “subsection (2) and (3)” there shall be substituted “subsections (2), (3) and (4)”.

(4) After section 90GA(3) there shall be inserted the following subsection—

“(4) The requirement of this subsection is that the authority concerned complies with such requirements as to consultation and publicity as may be prescribed by regulations made by the Secretary of State.”

8.  In section 337(6)(a) after “relevant” there shall be inserted “regional”.

9.  In section 367(1) for “subsections (2) to (4)” there shall be substituted “subsections (2) to (5)”.

10.  In Schedule 4 in paragraph 12(1) for “had arisen” there shall be substituted “had occurred”.

11.  In Schedule 32, in paragraph 3(3)(b) for “prescribed LRT scheme” there shall be substituted “prescribed LRT pension scheme”.

PART IIAMENDMENTS OF THE REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE ACT 1983

12.—(1) The Representation of the People Act 1983(5) shall be amended as follows.

(2) In section 76—

(a)in subsection (1) after “in this section” there shall be inserted “or, as respects an Authority election, under subsection (2A)(a), (b) or (c) below”; and

(b)in subsection (1A)(a) for “specified in this section” there shall be substituted “specified under subsection (2A)(d) below”.

(3) Section 189A shall be omitted.

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order makes minor drafting amendments to the Greater London Authority Act 1999 and to provisions inserted by it into the Representation of the People Act 1983.