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This is a draft item of legislation. This draft has since been made as a UK Statutory Instrument: The Newcastle Upon Tyne, North Tyneside and Northumberland Combined Authority (Establishment and Functions) Order 2018 (revoked) No. 1133
5.—(1) There is to be a Mayor for the combined area.
(2) The first election for the return of a Mayor is to take place on 2nd May 2019.
(3) Subsequent elections for the return of a Mayor must take place—
(a)on the ordinary day of election in 2024; and
(b)in each subsequent fourth year on the same day as the ordinary day of election.
(4) The Mayor’s term of office—
(a)begins with the fourth day after the day of the poll at the election for the return of a Mayor for the combined area; and
(b)ends with the third day after the day of the poll at the next election for the return of a Mayor for the combined area.
(5) In this article, “the ordinary day of election”, in relation to any year, means the day which is the ordinary day of election in that year of councillors for counties in England and districts in accordance with sections 37 and 37A of the Representation of the People Act 1983(1).
1983 c. 2. Section 37 was amended by section 18 (2) of the Representation of the People Act 1985 (c.50), section 17 of and Schedule 3 to the Greater London Authority Act 1999 (c. 29),section 60(1) of the Local Government and Public Involvement in Health Act 2007 (c. 28) and section 6(16) of the Wales Act 2017 (c.4). Section 37A was inserted by section 60(2) of the Local Government and Public Involvement in Health Act 2007.
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