Commentary on Sections The Homes and Communities Agency and other bodies Section 33: Expenditure of Greater London Authority on housing or regeneration
168.Section 33 amends the GLAA 1999. Section 30 of the GLAA 1999 (the general power of the authority) empowers the Greater London Authority to do anything which supports its three principal purposes of promoting economic development and wealth creation, promoting social development and improving the environment in Greater London. In the exercise of this general power, the Greater London Authority may carry on activities in the field of economic development and regeneration, which the London Development Agency and Homes and Communities Agency might previously have undertaken.
169.The Greater London Authority’s general power is limited by section 31(1) of the GLAA 1999 (limits of the general power), which prohibits the Authority from incurring expenditure in doing anything that can be done by Transport for London, the Mayor's Office for Policing and Crime and the London Fire and Emergency Planning Authority.
170.This section amends section 31 of the GLAA 1999 to remove a prohibition against the Authority incurring expenditure on anything that can be done by Transport for London. This enables the Greater London Authority to incur expenditure on transport for the purposes of housing or regeneration and applies in relation to expenditure incurred before as well as after the coming into force of the section.