Legislation – The West Yorkshire Combined Authority (Election of Mayor and Functions) Order 2021

PART 1
General

1 Citation, commencement and application

2 Interpretation

PART 2
Election of Mayor

3 Election of Mayor

4 Political adviser

PART 3
Education, skills and training functions

5 Concurrent exercise of local authority functions

6 Transfer of functions from the Secretary of State to the Combined Authority in relation to the Area

7 Functions of the Secretary of State to be exercisable concurrently with the Combined Authority in relation to the Area

8 Conditions on the exercise of functions mentioned in articles 6 and 7

9 Modification of provisions in the Apprenticeships, Skills, Children and Learning Act 2009

PART 4
Housing, regeneration and planning

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

11 Acquisition and appropriation of land for planning and public purposes

12 Condition on the exercise of the functions conferred by articles 10 and 11

13 Application of provisions of the 1985 Act, the 1990 Act and the 2008 Act

PART 5
Mayoral development corporation

14 Mayoral development corporation

15 Application of provisions in the 2011 Act

16 Mayoral development corporation: incidental provisions

PART 6
Transport

17 Power to pay grant

18 Grants to bus service operators

19 Agreements between authorities and strategic highways companies

20 Traffic regulation

21 Transport functions related to traffic signs and pedestrian crossings

22 Apparatus affected by highway, bridge or transport works

23 Permit schemes

24 Bus lane contraventions

PART 7
Additional functions

25 Assessment of economic conditions

26 Data sharing

PART 8
Mayoral functions

27 Functions exercisable only by the Mayor

28 Joint committees

PART 9
Funding

30 Transitional provision

31 Conferral of Business Rate Supplements functions

32 (1) The functions of the Combined Authority specified in article…

33 Adaptation of BRS in consequence of article 31

PART 10
Police and Crime Commissioner functions

34 Police and Crime Commissioner functions

35 Transfer of police and crime commissioner functions

36 Transfer of property, rights and liabilities

39 Foreign property etc, perfection of vesting

40 Transfers: supplementary provision

41 Extension of financial year of Police and Crime Commissioner and Chief Constable for West Yorkshire

42 Modifications to the Local Government Act 1972

PART 11
Amendment of the 2014 Order

43 Amendment of the 2014 Order

44 For Schedule 1 to the 2014 Order substitute the Schedule…

SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 1 Modification of provisions of the Apprenticeships, Skills, Children and Learning Act 2009 in their application to the Combined Authority

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

SCHEDULE 5 Modifications of police and crime commissioner enactments in their application to the Mayor

SCHEDULE 6 Exclusion of legislation from application to the Combined Authority Mayor with policing and crime functions

Explanatory note

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

PART 10Police and Crime Commissioner functions

Transfer of property, rights and liabilities36.

(1)

All property, rights and liabilities (including rights and liabilities in relation to contracts of employment) which immediately before 10th May 2021 were property, rights and liabilities of the police and crime commissioner are to transfer to, and by virtue of this paragraph vest in, the Combined Authority on 10th May 2021.

(2)

In relation to the property, rights and liabilities transferred by paragraph (1) and any property, rights and liabilities acquired in relation to the Mayor’s PCC functions on or after 10th May 2021—

(a)

all functions in relation to such property, rights and liabilities are to be exercised by the Mayor;

(b)

all decisions relating to such property, rights and liabilities are to be made by the Mayor;

(c)

any receipts arising from such property, rights and liabilities (whether arising from their use, sale, disposal or otherwise) are to be paid into the police fund kept by the Mayor by virtue of section 21 of the 2011 Act.

(3)

All monies held in the police fund kept by the police and crime commissioner under section 21 of the 2011 Act immediately before 10th May 2021 are, on that date, to transfer to the police fund kept by the Mayor by virtue of that section (as applied in accordance with article 35).

(4)

Nothing in paragraph (2) prevents the Mayor from making arrangements under section 1896 of the 2011 Act (as applied in accordance with article 35) in relation to the matters mentioned in paragraph (2).