{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/cambridgeshire-and-peterborough-combined-authority-order-2017/schedule/paragraph-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/cambridgeshire-and-peterborough-combined-authority-order-2017/schedule/paragraph-4.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2017/251",
  "legislation_title": "The Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Combined Authority Order 2017",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/cambridgeshire-and-peterborough-combined-authority-order-2017",
  "path": "schedule/paragraph/4",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Proceedings",
  "text": "(1) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(2) If the office of chair exists, no business is to be transacted at a meeting of the Combined Authority unless at least five members, including the chair or substitute members, appointed by the constituent councils are present at the meeting.\n(3) If the Mayor is in office, no business is to be transacted at a meeting of the Combined Authority unless at least five members are present at the meeting, and such members include—\n(a) the Mayor, or the deputy Mayor acting in place of the Mayor, and\n(b) at least four members appointed by the constituent councils, or substitute members.\n(4) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(5) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(6) Members appointed from the Local Enterprise Partnership shall be non-voting members of the Combined Authority.\n(7) A decision on a question relating to the following matters requires a vote in favour at a meeting of the Combined Authority, at which all members of the Combined Authority are present, by a majority of at least two-thirds of all members appointed by the constituent councils to include the members appointed by the councils for the local government areas of Cambridgeshire and Peterborough, or substitute members acting in place of those members, present and voting on that question to be carried—\n(a) the transport plan; and\n(b) any spending plans or plans for the allocation of transport-related funding.\n(8) A decision to reject the mayoral budget, mayoral strategy or mayoral spending plan requires a vote in favour at a meeting of the Combined Authority, at which all members of the Combined Authority are present, by a majority of at least two-thirds of all members appointed by the constituent councils, or substitute members acting in place of those members, present and voting on that question to be carried.\n(9) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(10) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(11) The provisions in the Schedule relating to the Mayor or deputy Mayor only have effect where the Mayor, or deputy Mayor, as the case may be, is in office.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Sch. para. 4(1) omitted (4.6.2026) by virtue of The English Devolution and Community Empowerment Act 2026 (Consequential Amendments and Revocations) (England) Regulations 2026 (S.I. 2026/519), regs. 1(2), 2(6)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Sch. para. 4(4) omitted (4.6.2026) by virtue of The English Devolution and Community Empowerment Act 2026 (Consequential Amendments and Revocations) (England) Regulations 2026 (S.I. 2026/519), regs. 1(2), 2(6)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Sch. para. 4(5) omitted (4.6.2026) by virtue of The English Devolution and Community Empowerment Act 2026 (Consequential Amendments and Revocations) (England) Regulations 2026 (S.I. 2026/519), regs. 1(2), 2(6)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Sch. para. 4(9) omitted (4.6.2026) by virtue of The English Devolution and Community Empowerment Act 2026 (Consequential Amendments and Revocations) (England) Regulations 2026 (S.I. 2026/519), regs. 1(2), 2(6)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Sch. para. 4(10) omitted (4.6.2026) by virtue of The English Devolution and Community Empowerment Act 2026 (Consequential Amendments and Revocations) (England) Regulations 2026 (S.I. 2026/519), regs. 1(2), 2(6)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. para. 4 in force at 3.3.2017, see art. 1(2)(b)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2017/251/schedule/paragraph/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:14:14.967099+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}