 It was therefore repealing the Act creating the body, restoring the situation for local boundary reviews to that pertaining in 1945.The Government was to carry out a review of the structures and functions of local administration, including London, although the Minister was unable to give a date for its commencement.Local government academic Bruce Wood, reviewing the history of the Commission nearly 30 years later, remarked that its refusal to be constrained in its 1947 report meant the Commission had "committed suicide".