Legislation – The East Midlands Combined County Authority Regulations 2024

PART 1
General

1 Citation and commencement

2 Interpretation

PART 2
Establishment of a combined county authority for East Midlands

3 Establishment

PART 3
Election of Mayor

5 Election of Mayor

6 Political adviser

PART 4
Housing, regeneration and planning

7 Conferral of functions corresponding to functions that the HCA has in relation to the Area

8 Acquisition and appropriation of land for planning and public purposes

9 Condition on the exercise of the functions conferred by regulations 7 and 8

10 Application of certain provisions of the 1985 Act, the 1990 Act and the 2008 Act

PART 5
Mayoral development corporation

11 Mayoral development corporation

12 Application of provisions in the 2011 Act

13 Mayoral development corporation: incidental provisions

PART 6
Transport

14 Local transport functions under the Transport Act 1985

15 Local transport functions under the Transport Act 2000

16 Agreements between authorities and strategic highways companies

17 Civil enforcement of road traffic contraventions

18 Workplace parking levy

19 Grants to bus service operators

20 Permit schemes

21 Power to pay grant

PART 7
Health functions

22 Public health functions

23 Duty to have regard to documents and guidance

24 Application of section 75 of the 2006 Act

25 Duty to have regard to NHS Constitution

PART 8
Mayoral functions

26 Functions exercisable only by the Mayor

27 Joint committees

PART 9
Funding

29 Conferral of Business Rate Supplements functions

30 Application of BRS Act in consequence of regulation 30

PART 10
Additional functions

31 Assessment of economic conditions

32 Data sharing

33 Incidental provisions

34 (1) The Combined County Authority has the power to exercise…

35 Section 13 of the 1989 Act (voting rights of members…

36 In Part 2 of Schedule 3 (pension funds) to the…

SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 1 Constitution

SCHEDULE 3 Modification of the application of Part 8 of the 2011 Act

SCHEDULE 4 Permit schemes: modification of the application of Part 3 of the Traffic Management Act 2004

Explanatory note

Which version?
Latest available (Revised)
Original (As enacted)

PART 3Election of Mayor

Political adviser6.

(1)

The Mayor may appoint one person as the Mayor’s political adviser.

(2)

Any appointment under paragraph (1) is an appointment as an employee of the Combined County Authority.

(3)

No appointment under paragraph (1) may extend beyond—

(a)

the term of office for which the Mayor who made the appointment was elected; or

(b)

where the Mayor who made the appointment ceases to be the Mayor before the end of the term of office for which the Mayor was elected, the date on which the Mayor ceases to hold that office.

(4)

A person appointed under paragraph (1) is to be regarded for the purposes of Part 1 of the 1989 Act (political restriction of officers and staff) as holding a politically restricted post under a local authority.

(5)

Section 9(1), (8), (9) and (11) of the 1989 Act (assistants for political groups)18, apply in relation to an appointment under paragraph (1) as if—

(a)

any appointment to that post were the appointment of a person in pursuance of that section; and

(b)

the Combined County Authority were a relevant authority for the purposes of that section.

(6)

Subsection (3) of section 9 of the 1989 Act applies in relation to an appointment under paragraph (1) as if the words from “and that the appointment terminates” to the end of that subsection were omitted.