Examples of GLA Act in a sentence
There is no express power within the GLA Act for the Assembly and the Mayor to delegate functions that are exercisable jointly by them and accordingly any decisions taken in respect of the appointment or removal of the Chief Executive/Head of Paid Service must be taken by the full Assembly and the Mayor.
Should changes be made to the appointments of any of the other statutory officers (the Monitoring Officer under section 73(1) of the GLA Act or the Chief Finance Officer under section 127A(1) of the GLA Act) the Assembly and the Mayor must also jointly make any such decision.
Under the GLA Act 1999 (as amended)1 the Authority is required to have “statutory officers” mentioned in paragraph 1.2 below.
Under section 54 of the GLA Act 1999 (as amended) the Assembly may delegate relevant functions to individual Members.
Functions of the proper officer of the Authority for the purposes of Sections 225 (deposit of documents) and 228 (inspection of documents) of the Local Government Act 1972 as applied to the Authority by Section 75 of the GLA Act 1999.
All references to the GLA Act 1999 (as amended) are references to the 1999 Act as amended by the GLA Act 2007.
The Greater London Authority Act 2007 made amendments to the GLA Act 1999 to ensure that the Mayor has regard to any comments submitted to him in response by the Assembly or any of the functional bodies.
The 13 GLA staff the Mayor can appoint (under Section 67(1) of the GLA Act as amended) are politically restricted (noting that there are differences in the application of the rules between officers who are appointed by the Mayor (the 11+2) under s67(1)(a) of the GLA Act and those appointed by the Head of Paid Service under s67(1)(b), which can be explained in more detail to the relevant post-holders as necessary).
Functions of proper officer of the authority for the purposes of Part VA (Access to Meetings and Documents of Certain Authorities, Committees and Sub-Committees) of the Local Government Act 1972 as applied to the Assembly by Section 58 (openness) of the GLA Act 1999.
Section 54(1) GLA Act enables the Assembly to arrange for any of its functions to be discharged by a committee or sub-committee of the Assembly or by a single member of the Assembly.