London County Council (General Powers) Act 1956
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1956 c. lxxvii |
| Year | 1956 |
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London County Council
Ch. lxxvii
(General Powers)
Act, 1956
CHAPTER lxxvii
An Act to confer further powers upon the London County
Council and other authorities to alter the boundary
between the administrative counties of London and
Surrey and for other purposes. [2nd August 1956.]
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(1) it is expedient that the London County Council
(hereinafter referred to as " the Council") should be empowered
to acquire for the purposes of the Education Acts 1944 to 1953
certain lands described or referred to in Part II of this Act and
to remove from a part of those lands and from certain other
lands the restrictions imposed by the Disused Burial Grounds
Act 1884:
(2) the British Transport Commission are the owners of the
forecourt of Charing Cross Railway Station in the city of
Westminster but by virtue of section xcvi of the Charing Cross
Railway Act 1859 they are required to maintain the said fore-
court as an open public space and are prohibited from disposing
of the same and from erecting buildings thereon:
(3) it is expedient that a portion of the said forecourt should
be used for the widening of the Strand in the said city and that
the said commission should be empowered to dispose of such
portion to the Council for that purpose as by this Act provided:
(4) it is expedient that the boundaries of the administrative
counties of London and Surrey should be altered so as to include
within the metropolitan borough of Wandsworth a part of the
municipal borough of Barnes and to include within that
municipal borough a part of the said metropolitan borough:
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Ch.
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{General Powers)
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(5) by the London County Council (Woolwich Subsidences)
Act 1950 powers were conferred upon the Council with respect
to the control of the use and occupation of certain lands in the
metropolitan borough of Woolwich where subsidence is likely
to occur:
(6) it is expedient that further powers as in this Act provided
should be conferred upon the Council in respect of such lands
for the purpose of preventing subsidence or further subsidence
occurring therein or thereunder:
(7) the time limited by certain enactments for the compulsory
purchase of lands and the completion of certain works by the
Council will shortly expire and it is expedient that the time
so limited should be extended as by this Act provided:
(8) it is expedient that the Council should be empowered to
stop up permanently a portion of a public footpath situate partly
in the municipal borough of Barking and partly in the metro-
politan borough of Woolwich on land held by the Council for
purposes of their main drainage functions:
(9) the Council maintain a superannuation and provident fund
under the London Council (General Powers) Act 1891 as
amended by subsequent enactments and it is expedient that
provision should be made as in this Act provided for determining
the method of calculating the retirement benefits of certain con-
tributors to that fund:
(10) it is expedient that the references to "continued" fever
should cease to be included in the definitions of notifiable
infectious disease and dangerous infectious disease contained in
the Public Health (London) Act 1936:
(11) it is expedient that provision should be made as is in
this Act provided with regard to the payment of fees to the
Council under the London Building Acts 1930 to 1939 with
respect to any building structure or work which having been
begun is suspended:
(12) it is expedient that provision should be made for requir-
ing the provision of adequate means of artificial lighting of com-
mon staircases in certain buildings used for human habitation:
(13)
it is expedient that the council of the metropolitan borough
of Camberwell (hereinafter referred to as "the Camberwell
Council") should be empowered to transfer to the Board of
Governors of the Bethlem Royal Hospital and the Maudsley Hos-
.pital certain land in the metropolitan borough of Camberwell
known as the Grove Lane Nursery held by "them as a public
open space and that on such transfer the London Squares and
Enclosures (Preservation) Act 1906 and the London Squares
Preservation Act 1931 should cease to apply to such land:
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(General Powers)
Act, 1956
(14) under section 105 of the London County Council
(General Powers) Act 1937 the councils of the metropolitan
boroughs of Shoreditch Bermondsey Finsbury Greenwich Ham-
mersmith Southwark and Stoke Newington have power to make
certain payments into the superannuation funds maintained by
those councils under the Shoreditch and other Metropolitan
Borough Councils (Superannuation) Acts 1922 to 1951 and it is
expedient that those councils should be authorised to exercise
the said power in respect of the superannuation funds main-
tained by them under Part I of the Local Government Superan-
nuation Act 1937 in substitution for the superannuation funds
aforesaid:
(15) it is expedient that the other provisions contained in this
Act should be enacted:
(16) the objects aforesaid cannot be attained without the
authority of Parliament:
(17) plans showing the lands which may be acquired or used
compukorily by the Council under the powers of this Act and
a book of reference to such plans containing the names of the
owners and lessees or reputed owners and lessees and of the
occupiers of such lands have been deposited with the clerk of
the Council and with the clerk of the county council of the
administrative county of Essex and are in this Act referred to
respectively as the deposited plans and deposited book of
reference:
(18) in relation to the promotion of the Bill for this Act the
Council (as respects the appropriate provisions of the Bill) have
complied with the requirements of section 151 of the London
Government Act 1939 and the Camberwell Council and the
councils of the metropolitan boroughs of Shoreditch Bermondsey
Finsbury Greenwich Hammersmith Southwark and Stoke New-
ington (as respects the provisions of the Bill relating exclusively
to those councils) and the council of the metropolitan borough of
Wandsworth (as respects the provisions of the Bill relating to
Part III (Alteration of boundaries) of this Act) have complied
with the requirements of sections 151 and 152 of the said Act
of 1939 as amended by the London County Council (General
Powers) Act 1948:
May it therefore please Your Majesty that it may be enacted
and be it enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty by
and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and
Temporal and Commons in this present Parliament assembled
and by the authority of the same as follows (that is to say):—
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