Article 14 Funding

(1)

The constituent councils must ensure that the costs of the GMCA reasonably attributable to the exercise of the functions mentioned in articles 5 (save for the function in section 9(2) of the 2008 Act), 6(1)(b) to (l) and (n), 12 and 13 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 specified in articles 3, 5 (in relation only to the function in section 9(2) of the 2008 Act), 6(1)(a) and (m), and 11, to the extent that the Mayor has not decided to meet these costs from other resources available to the GMCA.

(3)

Any amount payable by each of the constituent councils to ensure that the costs of the GMCA 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 proportion to the total resident population of the GMCA which resides in that 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 arrangements made under paragraph (3)—

(i)

the Mayor must agree with the GMCA the total expenditure mentioned in paragraph (2) in advance of incurring this expenditure; and

(ii)

in the absence of the agreement specified in paragraph (i), 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^f2 is to be disregarded from any calculation of the costs of the expenditure.

(5)

The functions mentioned in articles 9 and 10 are to be funded out of the levy issued by the GMCA to the constituent councils under section 74 of the Local Government Finance Act 1988^f3 and in accordance with the Transport Levying Bodies Regulations 1992^f4.

(6)

For the purposes of this article 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 made.

Annotations

Footnotes

f1: Section 25 of the Statistics and Registration Service Act 2007 (c. 18) provides that the Statistics Board is responsible for the functions in section 19 of the Registration Service Act 1953 (c. 37).
f2: c. 14. Section 40 was amended by section 83 of the 1999 Act, section 79 of, and paragraph 7 of Schedule 17 to, the Localism Act 2011 and section 5 of the Cities and Local Government Devolution Act 2016.
f3: c. 41. Section 74 was amended by paragraph 72 of Schedule 13 to the Local Government Finance Act 1992 (c. 14); paragraph 21 of Schedule 60 to the Local Government (Wales) Act 1994 (c. 19); Schedule 24 to the Environment Act 1995 (c. 25); section 105 of the Greater London Authority Act 1999 (c. 29); paragraph 305(a) of Schedule 8 to the Courts Act 2003 (c. 39); paragraph 68 of Schedule 1 to the Fire and Rescue Services Act 2004 (c. 21); paragraph 16 of Schedule 1 to the Local Government and Involvement in Public Health Act 2007 (c. 28); paragraphs 74 and 75 of Schedule 6 and Part 4 of Schedule 7 to the Local Democracy, Economic Development and Construction Act 2009 (c. 20); paragraphs 1 and 2 of Schedule 7 to the Police Reform and Social Responsibility Act 2011 (c. 13); paragraph 182(a) of Schedule 16 to the Localism Act 2011(c. 20); section 9(1)(a) , (b) and (2) of, and paragraphs 9 and 10 of Schedule 5 to the Cities and Local Government Devolution Act 2016 (c. 1); and by S.I. 1994/2825.
f4: S.I. 1992/2789, amended by S.I. 2012/213 and S.I. 2015/27.