Schedules

Schedule 4Combined county authorities: consequential amendments

158Children Act 2004 (c. 31)

In section 50 of the Children Act 2004 (intervention - England), after subsection (7) insert—

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If any functions of a local authority in England which are specified in subsection (2) are exercisable by a combined county authority by virtue of section 18 of the Levelling-up and Regeneration Act 2023—

a

a reference in this section to a local authority includes a reference to the combined county authority, and

b

a reference in this section to functions specified in subsection (2) is, in relation to the combined county authority, to be read as a reference to those functions so far as exercisable by the combined county authority.