Legislation – The Greater Lincolnshire Combined County Authority Regulations 2025

PART 1
General

1 Citation and commencement

2 Interpretation

PART 2
Establishment of a combined county authority for Greater Lincolnshire

3 Establishment

PART 3
Election of Mayor

5 Election of Mayor

PART 4
Housing, regeneration and planning

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

7 Acquisition and appropriation of land for planning and public purposes

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

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

PART 5
Mayoral development corporation

10 Mayoral development corporation

11 Application of provisions in the 2011 Act

12 Mayoral development corporation: incidental provisions

PART 6
Transport

13 Local transport functions under the Transport Act 1985

14 Local transport functions under the Transport Act 2000

15 Agreements between authorities and strategic highways companies

16 Civil enforcement of road traffic contraventions

17 Workplace parking levy

18 Grants to bus service operators

19 Permit schemes

20 Power to pay grant

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

22 Power to direct

PART 7
Mayoral functions

23 Functions exercisable only by the Mayor

24 Joint committees

PART 8
Funding

26 Conferral of Business Rate Supplements functions

27 Application of BRS Act in consequence of regulation 26

PART 9
Additional functions

28 Assessment of economic conditions

29 Data sharing

30 Incidental provisions

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

32 (1) The functions of the constituent councils under section 1…

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

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

SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 1 Constitution

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

Explanatory note

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

PART 3Election of Mayor

Election of Mayor5.

(1)

There is to be a mayor for the Area.

(2)

The first election for the return of a mayor for the Area is to take place on 1st May 2025.

(3)

Subsequent elections for the return of a mayor for the Area must take place in every fourth year thereafter on the same day as the ordinary day of election.

(4)

The term of office of the mayor returned at an election in 2025 for the return of a mayor for the Area—

(a)

begins with 6th May 2025, and

(b)

ends, subject to paragraph (8), with the third day after the day of the poll at the next election for the return of a mayor for the Area.

(5)

The term of office of the Mayor returned in each subsequent fourth year—

(a)

begins, subject to paragraph (7) with the fourth day after the day of the poll at the election for the return of the Mayor for the Area; and

(b)

ends, subject to paragraph (8), with the third day after the day of the poll at the next election for the return of the Mayor for the Area.

(6)

In this regulation “the ordinary day of election” in relation to any year means the day which is the ordinary day of election in that year of councillors for counties in England and districts as determined in accordance with section 37 of the Representation of the People Act 198319.

(7)

Where for the purposes of sub-paragraph (5)(a) the fourth day would otherwise be a Saturday, Sunday, Christmas Eve, Christmas Day, Good Friday, a bank holiday under the Banking and Financial Dealings Act 197120 in England and Wales or a day appointed as a day of public thanksgiving or mourning, the fourth day is instead deemed to be the first day thereafter which is not one of those specified days.

(8)

Where paragraph (7) applies the reference in paragraphs (4)(b) and (5)(b) to the third day is deemed to be the day before the day deemed to have effect in accordance with paragraph (7).