The Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Combined Authority Order 2017

Proceedings

4.—(1) Subject to the following sub-paragraphs, any question to be decided by the Combined Authority is to be decided by a majority of the members, and such majority is to include the Mayor, or the deputy Mayor acting in place of the Mayor, and substitute members, acting in place of members.

(2) If the office of chair exists, no business is to be transacted at a meeting of the Combined Authority unless at least five members, including the chair or substitute members, appointed by the constituent councils are present at the meeting.

(3) If the Mayor is in office, no business is to be transacted at a meeting of the Combined Authority unless at least five members are present at the meeting, and such members include—

(a) the Mayor, or the deputy Mayor acting in place of the Mayor, and

(b) at least four members appointed by the constituent councils, or substitute members.

(4) Each member, or substitute member acting in that member’s place, is to have one vote and no member is to have a casting vote.

(5) If a vote is tied on any matter it is deemed not to have been carried.

(6) Members appointed from the Local Enterprise Partnership shall be non-voting members of the Combined Authority.

(7) A decision on a question relating to the following matters requires a vote in favour at a meeting of the Combined Authority, at which all members of the Combined Authority are present, by a majority of at least two-thirds of all members appointed by the constituent councils to include the members appointed by the councils for the local government areas of Cambridgeshire and Peterborough, or substitute members acting in place of those members, present and voting on that question to be carried—

(a) the transport plan; and

(b) any spending plans or plans for the allocation of transport-related funding.

(8) A decision to reject the mayoral budget, mayoral strategy or mayoral spending plan requires a vote in favour at a meeting of the Combined Authority, at which all members of the Combined Authority are present, by a majority of at least two-thirds of all members appointed by the constituent councils, or substitute members acting in place of those members, present and voting on that question to be carried.

(9) The proceedings of the Combined Authority are not invalidated by any vacancy among its members or substitute members or by any defect in the appointment or qualifications of any member or substitute member.

(10) In sub-paragraph (4), the reference to a member includes—

(a) the Mayor or the deputy Mayor acting in place of the Mayor;

(b) a constituent member or a substitute member acting in that member’s place; and

(c) a member appointed from the Local Enterprise Partnership who has been given voting rights by resolution of the Combined Authority.

(11) The provisions in the Schedule relating to the Mayor or deputy Mayor only have effect where the Mayor, or deputy Mayor, as the case may be, is in office.