{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/london-government-grants-and-rates-etc-order-1965/article-6",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1965/97",
  "legislation_title": "The London Government (Grants and Rates, etc.) Order 1965",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/london-government-grants-and-rates-etc-order-1965",
  "path": "article/6",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "6",
  "heading": "General grant",
  "text": "(1) Paragraph 1 of Part IV of Schedule 1 (Adjustments of general grants for pooling, etc., arrangements) to the Local Government Act 1958 shall have effect, in respect of the expenditure defined in items (a) to (d) in sub-paragraph (4) of the said paragraph, with—\n(a) the substitution, in sub-paragraph (2), for the words following “this paragraph applies” of—\n“of the specified recipient authorities and the Inner London Education Authority, for apportioning the aggregate among such authorities and in the case of the specified recipient authorities for ascertaining the amount by which the general grant to each authority ought to be increased or decreased.\nIn this sub-paragraph, `the specified recipient authorities' means the recipient authorities other than the councils of the London boroughs of Camden, Greenwich, Hackney, Hammersmith, Islington, Kensington and Chelsea, Lambeth, Lewisham, Southwark, Tower Hamlets, Wandsworth and Westminster and the Common Council of the City of London ”;\nand\n(b) the addition, in sub-paragraph (3)—\n(i) after “general grant”, of “or of the payment to or by the Inner London Education Authority”;\n(ii) at the end of item (b), of “or of that payment”;\n(iii) after “the grants”, of “(whether payable by virtue of section 64 of the London Government Act 1963 or after re-allocation by a scheme under section 66 of that Act) or make or recover payment to or from the Inner London Education Authority”;\n(iv) after “any adjustment”, of “or make or recover payment as aforesaid”,\nand in the General Grants (Pooling Arrangements) Regulations 1959—\n(a) in regulation 4(4) there shall be inserted—\nafter “county borough” where first occurring, “or an outer London borough within the meaning of the London Government Act 1963”;\nafter “county borough” where next occurring, “or the London borough” ;\nafter “county”, “or the Inner London Education Area”; and\nat the end, “or the said Area” ;\n(b) in regulation 5—\nfor “and county borough council” , there shall be substituted, “county borough council and council of an outer London borough”;\nafter “increased or decreased” there shall be inserted “and the payment which should be made to or by the Inner London Education Authority”;\n(c) in regulation 6, after “general grants” wherever occurring, there shall be inserted “and of the payment to or by the Inner London Education Authority” .\n(2) The said paragraph 1 shall have effect in respect of the expenditure defined in item (e) in sub-paragraph (4) thereof with the addition—\n(i) of the following paragraph—\n“(3A) If no general grant is payable to the Common Council of the City of London for any year, or if the amount of the general grant payable for the year is smaller than the amount by which the grant falls to be decreased, the preceding sub-paragraph shall have effect in relation to the City of London with the substitution, for the words following `the Minister' where last occurring, of `shall recover the certified estimated amount in respect of the City of London or the difference between such amount and the amount of the general grant for the year, as the case may be, from the Common Council, and shall recover or pay any amounts necessary to offset differences between the estimated and actual amounts certified'.”;\n(ii) after “the grants” in sub-paragraph (3), of “(whether payable by virtue of section 64 of the London Government Act 1963 or after re-allocation by a scheme under section 66 of that Act)”,\nand in the General Grants (Health Authorities) (Pooling Arrangements) Regulations 1960, in regulation 5, for “county council and county borough council” , there shall be substituted “recipient authority” .\n(3) In the Genera Grant (Calculation) Regulations 1958 —\n(a) in regulation 2(2) (which contains definitions) there shall be inserted—\n“ `the relevant area' means a county, a county borough, a London borough, the City of London or the Isles of Scilly;”;\n(b) in regulation 3(1) (which provides for estimates), for “the council of each county and county borough in England and Wales and to the Council of the Isles of Scilly” , there shall be substituted “the council of each relevant area”;\n(c) in regulation 4 (which provides that areas shall be taken according to the last published census for the time being), for “each county and county borough in England and Wales and of the Isles of Scilly”, there shall be substituted “of each relevant area”;\n(d) the following regulation shall be added—\n“5A For the purposes of regulation 5 and of any estimate of population made for the purposes of the general grant, the Inner Temple and the Middle Temple shall be deemed to form part of the City of London.”.\n(4) In respect of the general grant for the year 1964–65 or any earlier year payable to any council named in column (1) of the following table—\n(a) any further estimate (within the meaning of paragraph (1) of regulation 3 of the General Grant (Calculation) Regulations 1958) and the result of the conclusive calculation (within the meaning of paragraph (2) of the said regulation) thereof shall, if, in either case, it will have effect as regards the payment of general grants only on or after 1st April 1965, be notified to the council specified in respect of such first-mentioned council in column (2);\n(b) where it appears from any such estimate or calculation that sums in excess of the amount of the estimate or calculation have already been paid on account of the grant the amount of the excess shall be recoverable by the Minister from the council so specified.\nTABLE\n(1)\n(2)\nThe London County Council\nThe Greater London Council\nThe county council of Middlesex\nThe Greater London Council\nThe council of the county borough of Croydon\nThe council of the London borough of Croydon\nThe council of the county borough of East Ham or West Ham\nThe council of the London borough of Newham\n(5) In so far as differences between the estimated and actual amounts of the increases and decreases of general grant which ought to be made for the year 1964–65 or any earlier year certified under paragraph 1(3) of Part IV of Schedule 1 to the Local Government Act 1958 cannot be offset by adjustment of the general grants for such year payable to the London County Council and the county council of Middlesex, the amounts which would apart from the abolition of such councils have fallen to be offset shall be recovered from the Greater London Council.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "(1959 I, p. 1574)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "(1960 II, p. 1850)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "(1958 I, p. 1356)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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