Legislation – The Greater Lincolnshire Combined County Authority Regulations 2025

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Introduction

PART 1
General

1 Citation and commencement

2 Interpretation

PART 2
Establishment of a combined county authority for Greater Lincolnshire

3 Establishment

4 Constitution

PART 3
Election of Mayor

5 Election of Mayor

PART 4
Housing, regeneration and planning

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

7 Acquisition and appropriation of land for planning and public purposes

8 Condition on the exercise of the functions conferred by regulations 6 and 7

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

PART 5
Mayoral development corporation

10 Mayoral development corporation

11 Application of provisions in the 2011 Act

12 Mayoral development corporation: incidental provisions

PART 6
Transport

13 Local transport functions under the Transport Act 1985

14 Local transport functions under the Transport Act 2000

15 Agreements between authorities and strategic highways companies

16 Civil enforcement of road traffic contraventions

17 Workplace parking levy

18 Grants to bus service operators

19 Permit schemes

20 Power to pay grant

21 Amendment of the Sub-national Transport Body (Transport for the North) Regulations 2018

22 Power to direct

PART 7
Mayoral functions

23 Functions exercisable only by the Mayor

24 Joint committees

PART 8
Funding

25 Funding

26 Conferral of Business Rate Supplements functions

27 Application of BRS Act in consequence of regulation 26

PART 9
Additional functions

28 Assessment of economic conditions

29 Data sharing

30 Incidental provisions

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

32 (1) The functions of the constituent councils under section 1…

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

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

SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 1 Constitution

SCHEDULE 2

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

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Explanatory note

PART 1General

Citation and commencement1.

(1)

These Regulations may be cited as the Greater Lincolnshire Combined County Authority Regulations 2025.

(2)

Save as provided in paragraph (3) these Regulations come into force on the day after the day on which they are made.

(3)

Part 7 of these Regulations comes into force on 6th May 2025.

Interpretation2.

In these Regulations—

“the 1980 Act” means the Highways Act 19806;
“the 1985 Act” means the Housing Act 19857;
“the 1989 Act” means the Local Government and Housing Act 19898;
“the 1990 Act” means the Town and Country Planning Act 19909;
“the 1999 Act” means the Greater London Authority Act 199910;
“the 2000 Act” means the Transport Act 200011;
“the 2003 Act” means the Local Government Act 200312;
“the 2004 Act” means the Traffic Management Act 200413;
“the 2008 Act” means the Housing and Regeneration Act 200814;
“the 2011 Act” means the Localism Act 201115;
“the 2023 Act” means the Levelling-up and Regeneration Act 202316;

“the Area” means the area consisting of the areas of the constituent councils;

“the BRS Act” means the Business Rate Supplements Act 200917;

“the Combined County Authority” means the Greater Lincolnshire Combined County Authority as constituted by regulation 3;

“Corporation” means a corporation established by the Secretary of State in accordance with the provisions in section 198 of the 2011 Act, as modified by Schedule 3 to these Regulations, following the designation of an area of land by the Combined County Authority;

“constituent councils” means the councils for the local government areas of Lincolnshire, North Lincolnshire and North East Lincolnshire;

“district councils” means the councils for the local government areas of Boston, Lincoln, East Lindsey, North Kesteven, South Holland, South Kesteven and West Lindsey;

“election for the return of the mayor” means an election held pursuant to regulation 5 of these Regulations;

“highway authority” and “local highway authority” have the same meaning as in sections 1 to 3 and 329(1) of the 1980 Act18;

“Mayor” means the mayor for the Area, except in the term “Mayor of London”; and

“the transition period” means the period beginning with the day on which this regulation comes into force and ending with 31st March 2026.

18

Section 1 was amended by the Local Government Act 1985 (c. 51), paragraph 1 of Schedule 4 and Schedule 17, the New Roads and Street Works Act 1991 (c. 22), section 21(2), the Local Government (Wales) Act 1994 (c. 19), paragraph 1(2) and (3) of Schedule 7, the Greater London Authority Act 1999 (c. 29), section 259(1) to (3) and the Infrastructure Act 2015 (c. 7), paragraph 2 of Schedule 1. Section 2 was amended by the New Roads and Street Works Act 1991, section 21(3), the Greater London Authority Act 1999, section 259(4) and (5) and the Infrastructure Act 2015, paragraph 3 of Schedule 1. Section 3 was amended by the Infrastructure Act 2015, paragraph 4 of Schedule 1. Section 329(1) was amended by the Infrastructure Act 2015, paragraph 60(2) of Schedule 1. There are other amendments to section 329 that are not relevant to these Regulations.