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Greater London Authority Bill

 
 

EXPLANATORY NOTES

Explanatory notes to the Bill, prepared by the Department for Communities and

Local Government, are published separately as Bill 11—EN.

EUROPEAN CONVENTION ON HUMAN RIGHTS

Secretary Ruth Kelly has made the following statement under section 19(1)(a) of the

Human Rights Act 1998:

In my view the provisions of the Greater London Authority Bill are compatible with

the Convention rights.

 

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Contents

Part 1

General functions of the Authority

Payments on loss of office

1   

Payments on ceasing to hold office as Mayor or Assembly member

The Mayor’s strategies

2   

Consultation

The Assembly

3   

The Mayor’s periodic report to the Assembly

4   

Confirmation hearings etc for certain appointments by the Mayor

5   

Power to require attendance at Assembly meetings: time limits

6   

Annual report by the Assembly

Officers and staff

7   

Staff appointed under section 67(2) of the GLA Act 1999

8   

Head of paid service

9   

Monitoring officer

10   

Chief finance officer

11   

Amendments consequential on sections 8 to 10

The annual budget

12   

Separate component budgets for Assembly and Mayor

13   

Procedure for determining Authority’s consolidated budget requirement

14   

Substitute calculations

15   

Deemed component budget requirements for last old financial year

16   

Exercise of Mayor’s functions when temporarily unable to act

 

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Part 2

Transport

17   

Restrictions on disposal of land: method of giving consent

18   

Membership of Transport for London: eligibility of holders of political office

19   

Remuneration and allowances

Part 3

The London Development Agency

20   

Allowances

Part 4

Health

The Health Adviser and the Deputy Health Advisers

21   

The Health Adviser and the Deputy Health Advisers

Reduction of health inequalities

22   

The health inequalities strategy

23   

The general power of the Authority: duty to have regard

24   

General duties of the Mayor with respect to his strategies

Part 5

The London Fire and Emergency Planning Authority

25   

Membership

26   

Allowances

27   

Directions etc by the Mayor

Part 6

Housing

28   

The London housing strategy

Part 7

Planning

The Mayor’s spatial development strategy

29   

Duties in relation to consultation

Local development schemes

30   

Local development schemes

 
 

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Development control

31   

Mayor to determine certain applications for planning permission

32   

Planning obligations

33   

Amendments of section 106 of TCPA

34   

Planning obligations: further provision

35   

Planning contribution under section 46 of PCPA 2004

Part 8

Environmental functions

Waste

36   

Duties of waste collection authorities etc

37   

Information about waste contracts

Climate change and energy

38   

Duty of Mayor and Assembly to address climate change

39   

The London climate change mitigation and energy strategy

40   

The Mayor’s adaptation to climate change strategy for London

Part 9

Culture, media and sport

Museum of London

41   

Transfer of power of appointment of members of Board of Governors

42   

Period of appointment of Governors to the Board

43   

The Board’s expenditure: transfer of powers and other provisions

44   

Transfer of other powers relating to the Museum

45   

Repeal of section 5 of the Museum of London Act 1986

Miscellaneous

46   

The Mayor’s culture strategy: consultation

47   

The Mayor’s duty to exercise certain powers of appointment

Part 10

Miscellaneous and general

48   

Common provision of administrative, professional and technical services

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Supplementary provisions

49   

Orders

50   

Directions

51   

Financial provisions

52   

Repeals

53   

Interpretation

 
 

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Short title, citation, commencement and extent

Schedule 1   —   

Confirmation hearings etc: Schedule 4A to the GLA Act 1999

Schedule 2   —   

Repeals

 
 

 
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