Legislation – The North East Mayoral Combined Authority (Establishment and Functions) Order 2024

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Introduction

PART 1
General

1 Citation, commencement, and extent

2 Interpretation

PART 2
Establishment

3 Dissolution of the combined areas of Durham, Gateshead, South Tyneside and Sunderland and Newcastle Upon Tyne, North Tyneside and Northumberland and the abolition of their respective combined authorities

4 Abolition of the Joint Transport Committee

5 Establishment of the North East Mayoral Combined Authority

6 Constitution of the Combined Authority

PART 3
Transfer of Functions, Property, Rights, Assets and Liabilities and associated provision

7 Transfer of property, assets, rights and liabilities

8 Transfer of functions

9 Continuity provision

10 Extension of financial year of the Durham, Gateshead, South Tyneside and Sunderland Combined Authority and the Newcastle Upon Tyne, North Tyneside and Northumberland Combined Authority

11 Statutory Officers

12 Pension liabilities

PART 4
Election of Mayor

13 Cancellation of the election for the mayor of the Newcastle Upon Tyne, North Tyneside and Northumberland Combined Authority in 2024

14 The Mayor

15 The Mayor’s first and subsequent terms of office

16 Modification of the Combined Authorities (Mayoral Elections) Order 2017

17 Political adviser

PART 5
Transport

18 Passenger Transport Executive

19 Transfer of functions etc. relating to transport

20 Adaptation of enactments

21 Agreements between authorities and strategic highways companies

22 Permit schemes

23 Promoting road safety

24 Grants to bus service operators

25 Bus lane contraventions

26 Funding in respect of transport functions – levy

27 Power to pay grant – general

28 Modification of the 2000 Act – implementation of the local transport plan

PART 6
Education, Skills and Training

29 Adult education functions of the Secretary of State transferred to the Combined Authority in relation to the Combined Area

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

31 Conditions on the exercise of functions mentioned in articles 29 and 30

32 Modification of provisions in ASCLA

33 Functions of the constituent councils to be exercised concurrently with the Combined Authority

PART 7
Housing, regeneration and planning

34 Conferral of functions corresponding to functions that the Homes and Communities Agency has in relation to the Combined Area

35 Acquisition and appropriation of land for planning and public purposes

36 Application of provisions of the HA 1985, the 1990 Act and the 2008 Act

37 Spatial development strategy

38 Adaptation of enactments in consequence of article 37

PART 8
Mayoral development corporations

39 Mayoral development corporations

40 Application of provisions in the 2011 Act

41 Mayoral development corporation: incidental provisions

PART 9
Mayoral functions and funding

42 Functions

43 Joint committees

44 Funding

45 Conferral of the Business Rate Supplements functions

46 Modification of BRSA in consequence of article 45

PART 10
Additional functions and incidental provision

47 Other functions

48 Incidental provisions

49 Modification of section 13 of the 1989 Act

50 Amendment of the Local Government Pension Scheme Regulations 2013

51 Data sharing

SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 1 Constitution

SCHEDULE 2 Adaptation of certain transport-related legislation

SCHEDULE 3 Modification of provisions in ASCLA in their application in relation to the Combined Authority

SCHEDULE 4 Modification of the 2008 Act

SCHEDULE 5 Spatial development strategy

SCHEDULE 6 Modification of the application of Part 8 of the 2011 Act

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PART 8Mayoral development corporations

Application of provisions in the 2011 Act40.

(1)

Chapter 2 of Part 8 of the 2011 Act (Mayoral development corporations) applies in relation to the Combined Authority as it applies in relation to the Mayor of London, with the modifications made by Schedule 6.

(2)

Chapter 2 of Part 8 of the 2011 Act applies in relation to a Corporation as it applies in relation to a Mayoral development corporation, with the modifications made by Schedule 6.

(3)

Subject to paragraph (6), in any enactment (whenever passed or made)—

(a)

any reference to a Mayoral development corporation; or

(b)

any reference which falls to be read as a reference to a Mayoral development corporation,

is to be treated as including a reference to a Corporation.

(4)

For the purposes of any transfer scheme relating to a Corporation under any provisions of the 2011 Act applied with modifications by this Order, paragraph 9 of Schedule 24 to the 2011 Act (transfers under scheme under section 17, 200(1) or (4) or 216(1)) applies in relation to—

(a)

any property, rights or liabilities transferred to or from a Corporation in accordance with a transfer scheme; or

(b)

anything done for the purposes of, or in relation to, or in consequence of, the transfer of any property, rights or liabilities to or from a Corporation in accordance with such a transfer scheme,

as it applies in relation to a Mayoral development corporation.

(5)

For the purposes of establishing a Corporation, giving the Corporation a name, giving effect to any decisions notified to the Secretary of State under sections 199(4) (exclusion of land from Mayoral development areas), 202(8) (decisions about planning functions), or 214(6) (powers in relation to discretionary relief from non-domestic rates) of the 2011 Act or in relation to the transfer of land to or from a Corporation under any provision of the 2011 Act, applied with modifications by this Order, section 235 of the 2011 Act (orders and regulations) applies in relation to—

(a)

the power of a Minister of the Crown to make an order under sections 198(2) (mayoral development corporations: establishment) and 200(6) (transfers of property etc to a Mayoral development corporation) of that Act; and

(b)

the power of the Treasury to make regulations under paragraph 9(2) of Schedule 24 to that Act,

as it applies in relation to the establishment of a Mayoral development corporation, giving the corporation a name, giving effect to any decisions notified to the Secretary of State (under sections 199(4), 202(8) and 214(6) of the 2011 Act) or in relation to the transfer of land to or from a Mayoral development corporation.

(6)

Paragraph (3) does not apply to—

(a)

paragraph 9(8)(a) of Schedule 2 to the Channel Tunnel Rail Link Act 1996 (works: further and supplementary provisions)82;

(b)

section 31(1A) of the 1999 Act (limits of the general power)83;

(c)

section 38 of the 1999 Act (delegation)84;

(d)

section 60A(3) of the 1999 Act (confirmation hearings etc for certain appointments by the Mayor or Mayor’s office for policing and crime)85;

(e)

section 68(6) of the 1999 Act (disqualification and political restriction)86;

(f)

section 73 of the 1999 Act (monitoring officer)87;

(g)

section 403B of the 1999 Act (acquisition of land by MDC and TfL for shared purposes)88;

(h)

section 424 of the 1999 Act (interpretation)89;

(i)

section 24(4) of the 2004 Act (conformity with spatial development strategy)90; and

(j)

paragraph 8(8)(a) of Schedule 2 to the Crossrail Act 2008 (works: further and supplementary provisions)91.

(7)

In this article “transfer scheme” means a transfer scheme under section 200(1) or (4) or 216(1) of the 2011 Act.

Annotations:
Commencement Information

I1Art. 40 in force at 7.5.2024, see art. 1(3)

82

1996 c. 61. Paragraph 9(8) of Schedule 2 was amended by paragraph 43 of Schedule 22 to the 2011 Act.

83

Section 31 was amended by section 186 of, and paragraphs 44 and 45 of Schedule 22 and Parts 31 and 32 of Schedule 25 to, the 2011 Act, section 33 of the Infrastructure Act 2015 (c. 7) and by S.I. 2012/1530.

84

Section 38 was amended by paragraphs 36 and 37 of Schedule 19, paragraphs 4 and 5 of Schedule 20, paragraphs 44 and 46 of Schedule 22 and Part 32 of Schedule 25 to the 2011 Act, and section 28 of the Growth and Infrastructure Act 2013 (c. 27) and S.I. 2001/2237.

85

Section 60A was inserted by section 4 of the Greater London Authority Act 2007 (c. 24) and amended by section 224 of the Planning Act 2008 (c. 29), section 20 of the Police Reform and Social Responsibility Act 2011 (c. 13), paragraphs 44 and 47 of Schedule 22 and Part 32 of Schedule 25 to the 2011 Act, and by S.I. 2008/2038.

86

Section 68(6) was amended by paragraphs 44 and 48 of Schedule 22 and Part 32 of Schedule 25 to the 2011 Act.

87

Section 73 was amended by sections 7 and 9 of, and Schedule 2 to, the Greater London Authority Act 2007, paragraph 16 of Part 2 of Schedule 12 to the Local Government and Public Involvement in Health Act 2007 (c. 28), paragraphs 36 and 38 of Schedule 19, paragraphs 44 and 49 of Schedule 22 and Part 32 of Schedule 25 to the 2011 Act and by S.I. 2000/1435.

88

Section 403B was inserted by section 36(1) and (2) of the Neighbourhood Planning Act 2017 (c. 20).

89

Section 424 was amended by section 1159 of the Companies Act 2006 (c. 46), sections 11, 12, 21, 22 of the Greater London Authority Act 2007, section 3 of the Police Reform and Social Responsibility Act 2011 and paragraphs 44 and 52 of Schedule 22 and Part 32 of Schedule 25 to the 2011 Act and by S.I. 2009/1941.

90

Section 24 was amended by paragraph 15 of Schedule 5 and paragraph 1 of Part 4 of Schedule 7 to the 2009 Act and by paragraphs 54 and 55 of Schedule 22 to the 2011 Act.

91

2008 c. 18. Paragraph 8 of Schedule 2 was amended by paragraph 58 of Schedule 22 to the 2011 Act.