Article 13 Funding

(1)

Subject to paragraph (3), the constituent councils must ensure that the costs of the Combined Authority which are reasonably attributable to the exercise of its functions are met.

(2)

Subject to paragraph (4), the constituent councils must meet the costs of the expenditure reasonably incurred by the mayor in, or in connection with, the exercise of the functions referred to in article 11, to the extent that the mayor has not decided to meet these costs from other resources available to the Combined Authority.

(3)

Any amount payable by each of the constituent councils to ensure that the costs of the Combined Authority referred to in paragraphs (1) and (2) are met is to be determined by apportioning such costs between the constituent councils in such proportions as they may agree or, in default of such agreement, in accordance with the proportion of the total resident population of the Combined Authority which resides in the area of each constituent council at the relevant date as estimated by the Statistics Board^f1.

(4)

In relation to the expenditure mentioned in paragraph (2)—

(a)

to the extent to which such expenditure is met by amounts payable under paragraph (3)—

(i)

the mayor must agree with the Combined Authority the total expenditure mentioned in paragraph (2) in advance of incurring such expenditure, and

(ii)

in the absence of such agreement, no such expenditure may be incurred;

(b)

any precept issued in relation to such expenditure under section 40 of the Local Government Finance Act 1992 (issue of precepts by major precepting authorities)^f2 is to be disregarded from any calculation of the costs of the expenditure.

(5)

For the purposes of paragraph (3), the “relevant date” in relation to a payment for a financial year is 30th June in the financial year which commenced two years prior to the financial year in which such payment is to be made.

Annotations

Footnotes

f1: The Statistics Board is established in section 1 of the Statistics and Registration Service Act 2007 (c. 18).
f2: 1992 c. 14. Section 40 was amended by section 83 of the Greater London Authority Act 1999, section 79 of, and paragraph 7 of Schedule 17 to the Localism Act 2011 (c. 20) and section 5 of the Cities and Local Government Devolution Act 2016 (c. 1).