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 3Housing, regeneration and planning

Application of certain provisions of the 1985 Act, the 1990 Act and the 2008 Act8.

(1)

For the purposes of regulation 6(1)(a) to 6(1)(e) the Combined County Authority is to be treated as a local housing authority for the Area19 and acts of a local housing authority that is not the Combined County Authority may be taken to be acts of the Combined County Authority for these purposes.

(2)

Part 9 of the 1990 Act (acquisition and appropriation of land for planning purposes, etc) applies in relation to the Combined County Authority and land which has been vested in or acquired by the Combined County Authority for planning and public purposes as it applies to a local planning authority and land vested in or acquired by a local planning authority for planning and public purposes.

(3)

Chapters 1 and 2 of Part 1 of, section 19 of and Schedules 2 to 4 to, the 2008 Act apply in relation to the powers of the Combined County Authority to acquire land for housing and infrastructure as they apply to the HCA and land acquired by the HCA with the modifications made by Parts 1 and 2 of Schedule 2 to these Regulations.

(4)

In this regulation “local planning authority” has the meaning given by section 336(1) of the 1990 Act.

Annotations:
Commencement Information

I1Reg. 8 in force at 5.2.2025, see reg. 1(2)

19

Pursuant to section 1 of the 1985 Act “local housing authority” means a district council, a London borough council, the Common Council of the City of London, a Welsh county council or county borough council or the Council of the Isles of Scilly.