# The Devon and Torbay Combined County Authority Regulations 2025, Paragraph 4: Proceedings

Extent: E+W

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(2) No business shall be transacted at a meeting of the Combined County Authority unless at least four members or substitute members acting in a member’s place are present at the meeting.
(3) For the purposes of paragraph (2), one of the members present must be the chair or vice chair.
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(6) Questions relating to the following matters require that both the members appointed under paragraph 1(2) are in the majority, to be carried—
(a) approval or amendment of the Combined County Authority’s budget;
(b) appointment of the Combined County Authority’s chief executive;
(c) adoption of any local transport plan under section 108(3) of the Transport Act 2000;
(d) approval or amendment of the Combined County Authority’s constitution or standing orders;
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(6A) Where section 24E of the 2023 Act (non-mayoral CCA: functions imposing financial liability) applies to the Combined County Authority, the requirement in section 24E(2) is only satisfied if consent is given by the member of the relevant constituent council appointed under paragraph 1(2), or where any substitute member is acting in place of that member, that substitute member.
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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2025/115/schedule/1/paragraph/4 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/devon-and-torbay-combined-county-authority-regulations-2025/schedule-1/paragraph-4/enacted
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