Does the 1888 Local Government Act Section 79 (2) still apply today
Dear Common Council of the City of London,
We will be grateful if you would kindly confirm the following please:
1. Does the 1888 Local Government Act Section 79 (2) still apply today
please.
2. If the 1888 Local Government Act Section 79 (2) does not apply today,
please confirm what Government Act repealed it.
This is not a request for legal advice; but a request for you to confirm if you hold records about this, as it impacts on you and your community.
Yours faithfully,
George Tsigarides
Dear George Tsigarides,
FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT 2000 (FOIA) – REQUEST FOR INFORMATION
The City of London (CoL), sometimes also called the City of London Corporation, acknowledges receipt of your two identical requests for information of 19 September 2019.
(Please note that, although the WDTK site lists the CoL at two places under two different names –
http://www.whatdotheyknow.com/body/city_...
http://www.whatdotheyknow.com/body/commo...
- where your identical requests are listed, the CoL is in fact one legal entity. Its full, official name is ‘The Mayor and Commonalty and Citizens of the City of London’. We have informed the WDTK website that it is maintaining two sections for one body, and that it would be less confusing for applicants if the site referred to the CoL under one name instead of maintaining two lists and two names for the same legal entity, but it has declined to make the change. For further clarification of the position of the CoL under the FOIA, please see Paragraph 9 of Schedule 1 of the FOIA, which describes the CoL as being subject to the FOIA with regard to 'The Common Council of the City of London, in respect of information held in its capacity as a local authority, police authority or port health authority').
Public authorities are required to respond to requests within the statutory timescale of 20 working days beginning from the first working day after they receive a request. The Act does not always require public authorities to disclose the information which they hold.
The FOIA applies to the CoL as a local authority, police authority and port health authority. The CoL is the local and police authority for the “Square Mile”, ie the historic City of London, and not for London as a whole. Please see the following page containing a link to a map (‘Explore the City’), which shows the local authority area covered by the CoL:
https://www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/maps/Pag....
The CoL does have some functions, including Port Health Authority functions, which extend beyond the City boundary. For further information please see: www.cityoflondon.gov.uk.
Yours sincerely,
Information Officer
Comptroller & City Solicitor’s Department
City of London
Tel: 020-7332 1243
www.cityoflondon.gov.uk
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Dear COL-EB-InformationOfficer,
May we please have a response to our FOI request.
Yours sincerely,
George Tsigarides
Dear George Tsigarides,
Thank you for your email, please find a copy of the response sent to the following email address [email address]. on 16 October 2019.
As per the acknowledgement, which you have included with this reminder, the response to this request is the same as the response made to [email address].
Please accept our sincere apologies for not including this additional address in our response of 16 October 2019.
Yours Sincerely
Information Officer
Comptroller & City Solicitor’s Department
Tel: 020-7332 1243
www.cityoflondon.gov.uk
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