Legislation – The Devon and Torbay 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 Devon and Torbay

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 Permit schemes

14 Power to pay grant

PART 5
Additional functions

15 Assessment of economic conditions

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

17 Data sharing

18 Incidental provisions

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

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

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

PART 6
Funding

22 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

Signature

Explanatory note

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PART 1General

Interpretation2.

In these Regulations—

“the 1980 Act” means the Highways Act 19802;
“the 1985 Act” means the Housing Act 19853;
“the 1989 Act” means the Local Government and Housing Act 19894;
“the 1990 Act” means the Town and Country Planning Act 19905;
“the 2004 Act” means the Traffic Management Act 20046;
“the 2008 Act” means the Housing and Regeneration Act 20087;
“the 2023 Act” means the Levelling-up and Regeneration Act 20238;

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

“Combined County Authority” means the Devon and Torbay Combined County Authority as constituted by regulation 3;

“constituent councils” means the councils for the local government areas9 of Devon and Torbay;

“district councils” means East Devon District Council, Exeter City Council, Mid Devon District Council, North Devon Council, South Hams District Council, Teignbridge District Council, Torridge District Council and West Devon Borough Council;

“the HCA” has the meaning given in regulation 5(1);

“highway authority” and “local highway authority” have the same meaning as in sections 1 to 3 and 329(1) of the 1980 Act10;

“the transition period” means the period beginning with the day on which these Regulations come into force and ending with 31st March 2026.

Annotations:
Commencement Information

I1Reg. 2 in force at 5.2.2025, see reg. 1(2)

9

The term “local government area” is defined in section 46(6) of the 2023 Act.

10

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