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Greater London Authority Bill

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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