Statutory Instruments
Local Government, England
Made
3rd May 2018
Coming into force in accordance with regulation 1
The Secretary of State makes the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 23(5) and 123(1) of the Local Government Act 2003(1) (“the 2003 Act”).
In accordance with section 23(6) of the 2003 Act the councils whose local government areas are comprised in the areas of the Cambridgeshire and Peterborough, Greater Manchester, Liverpool City Region, Tees Valley, West Midlands and West of England Combined Authorities and the Cambridgeshire and Peterborough, Greater Manchester, Liverpool City Region, Tees Valley, West Midlands and West of England Combined Authorities have consented to the specification of the functions in regulation 2 for the purposes of Part 1 of the 2003 Act(2).
A draft of this instrument has been laid before, and approved by a resolution of, each House of Parliament pursuant to section 23(10) of the 2003 Act.
2003 c. 26. Subsection (5) was inserted by the Local Democracy, Economic Development and Construction Act 2009 (c. 20) (“the 2009 Act”), section 119 and paragraph 117 of Schedule 6; subsection (5) was amended and subsections (6) to (10) were inserted by the Cities and Local Government Devolution Act 2016 (c. 1), section 9.
Section 23(6) provides that a function of a combined authority may be specified in regulations under section 23(5) only with the consent of each county council or district council the whole or any part of whose area is within the area of the combined authority and, in the case of an existing combined authority, the consent of the combined authority.