Legislation – The Lancashire 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 Lancashire

3 Establishment

4 Constitution

PART 3
Housing, regeneration and planning

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

6 Acquisition and appropriation of land for planning and public purposes

7 Condition on the exercise of the functions conferred by regulations 5 and 6

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

PART 4
Transport

9 Local transport functions under the Transport Act 1985

10 Local transport functions under the Transport Act 2000

11 Agreements between authorities and strategic highways companies

12 Civil enforcement of road traffic contraventions

13 Workplace parking levy

14 Permit schemes

15 Power to pay grant

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

PART 5
Additional functions

17 Assessment of economic conditions

18 General power of competence in relation to economic development and regeneration

19 Data sharing

20 Incidental provisions

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

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

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

PART 6
Funding

24 Funding, including levy funding

SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 1 Constitution

SCHEDULE 2

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

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Explanatory note

PART 6Funding

Funding, including levy funding24.

(1)

Subject to paragraph (3), the constituent councils must ensure that the costs of the Combined County Authority reasonably attributable to the exercise of its functions are met.

(2)

Any amount payable by each of the constituent councils is to be determined by apportioning the costs of the Combined County Authority referred to in paragraph (1) between the constituent councils in such proportions as they may agree or, in default of such agreement, in the following shares between the constituent councils—

  • Lancashire – 2/3;

  • Blackpool – 1/6;

  • Blackburn with Darwen – 1/6.

(3)

The costs of the Combined County Authority reasonably attributable to the exercise of its functions relating to transport may be met by means of a levy issued by the Combined County Authority to the constituent councils under section 74 of the Local Government Finance Act 198855 and in accordance with Regulations made thereunder56.
55

1988 c. 41. Section 74 was amended by Schedule 13 to the Local Government Finance Act 1992 (c. 14), section 105 of the Greater London Authority Act 1999 (c. 29), Schedule 8 to the Courts Act 2003 (c. 39), Schedule 1 to the Local Government and Public Involvement in Health Act 2007 (c. 28), Schedule 6 to, and Part 4 of Schedule 7 to, the 2009 Act, Part 3 of Schedule 16 to the Police Reform and Social Responsibility Act 2011 (c. 13), Schedule 7 to the 2011 Act, section 9 of and Schedule 5 to the Cities and Local Government Devolution Act 2016 (c. 1), Schedule 4 to the 2023 Act and by S.I. 1994/2825.