Paragraph 6 Proceedings on or after the day on which the first Mayor’s term of office begins

Subject to the following sub-paragraphs, any question that is to be decided by the Combined County Authority on or after the day on which the first Mayor’s term of office begins excluding approval or amendment of the Mayor’s budget and questions relating to functions mentioned in regulation 23(7)(b) (functions exercisable only by the Mayor) is to be decided by—

No business may be transacted at a meeting of the Combined County Authority unless the following persons are present—

Where the deputy mayor is acting in the place of the Mayor they cannot also act in their capacity as a member of the Combined County Authority.

The Mayor, and each member of the Combined County Authority appointed by a constituent council, or substitute member acting in that member’s place, is to have one vote.

Neither the Mayor nor any member or substitute member is to have a casting vote.

If a vote is tied on any matter it is deemed not to have been carried.

For questions relating to the following matters, the majority under sub-paragraph (1)(b) must include all lead members designated by the constituent councils under paragraph 1(3) or, where any substitute members are acting in place of lead members, all lead members and all such substitute members—

Reference to a two thirds majority in article 8(4) of the Combined Authorities (Finance) Order 2017^f1 is to be read as reference to—

The proceedings of the Combined County Authority are not invalidated by any vacancy among its members or substitute members or by any defect in the appointment or qualifications of any member or substitute member.