The Liverpool City Region Combined Authority (Functions and Amendment) Order 2017

PART 1 General

Citation and commencement

1.—(1) This Order may be cited as the Liverpool City Region Combined Authority (Functions and Amendment) Order 2017

(2) Save as provided in paragraph (3) this Order comes into force on the day after the day on which it is made.

(3) Articles 5, 10 to 17, 19, 20 and 21(2)(a) and (b) come into force on 8th May 2017.

Interpretation

2.  In this Order—

“the 1984 Act” means the Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984(1);

“the 1988 Act” means the Road Traffic Act 1988(2);

“the 1989 Act” means the Local Government and Housing Act 1989(3);

“the 1990 Act” means the Town and Country Planning Act 1990(4);

“the 1999 Act” means the Greater London Authority Act 1999(5);

“the 2003 Act” means the Local Government Act 2003(6);

“the 2004 Act” means the Planning and Compulsory Purchase Act 2004(7);

“the 2008 Act” means the Housing and Regeneration Act 2008(8);

“the 2009 Act” means the Local Democracy, Economic Development and Construction Act 2009;

“the 2011 Act” means the Localism Act 2011(9);

“the 1996 Regulations” means the Local Authorities’ Traffic Orders (Procedure) (England and Wales) Regulations 1996(10);

“the 2008 Order” means the Town and Country Planning (Mayor of London) Order 2008(11);

“the 2014 Order” means the Halton, Knowsley, Liverpool, St Helens, Sefton and Wirral Combined Authority Order 2014(12);

“the Area” means the area of the Combined Authority;

“constituent councils” means the district councils for the local government areas of Halton, Knowsley, Liverpool, St Helens, Sefton, and Wirral;

“the Combined Authority” means the Liverpool City Region Combined Authority, a body corporate established by the 2014 Order(13);

“Corporation” means a corporation established by the Secretary of State in accordance with the provisions in section 198 of the 2011 Act, with the modifications made by Schedule 4, following the designation of an area of land by the Combined Authority;

“the HCA” means the Homes and Communities Agency(14);

“highway functions” means the functions which are exercisable by a constituent council (in whatever capacity) in relation to the highways for which they are the highway authority; and

“the Mayor” means the mayor for the Area(15) except where the reference is to the Mayor of London.

(1)

1984 c. 27.

(2)

1988 c. 52.

(3)

1989 c. 42.

(4)

1990 c. 8.

(5)

1999 c. 29.

(6)

2003 c. 26.

(7)

2004 c. 5.

(8)

2008 c. 17.

(9)

2011 c. 20.

(10)

S.I. 1996/2489 amended in relation to England by S.I. 2009/1116.

(11)

S.I 2008/580.

(12)

S.I. 2014/865.

(13)

The Liverpool City Region Combined Authority was established by the 2014 Order. Article 3(2) provides that “the combined authority is to be a body corporate and to be known as the Halton, Knowsley, Liverpool, St Helens, Sefton and Wirral Combined Authority. However, section 104(4) of the 2009 Act applies section 97 of the Local Transport Act 2008(c. 26) (change of name of ITA) to a combined authority as it applies to an Integrated Transport Authority and on 1 April 2014 the Combined Authority passed a resolution, in relation to which the requirements mentioned in section 97 (2) were met, to change the name by which the Combined Authority is known from the Halton, Knowsley, Liverpool, St Helens, Sefton and Wirral Combined Authority to the Liverpool City Region Combined Authority.

(14)

The HCA is a body corporate established under section 1 of the 2008 Act.

(15)

Article 3 to S.I 2016/448 provides for there to be a mayor for the area of the Combined Authority.