# The Greater Manchester Combined Authority (Functions and Amendment) Order 2016, 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.
(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 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 and in accordance with the Transport Levying Bodies Regulations 1992.
(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.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2016/9780111151532/article/14 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/draft-greater-manchester-combined-authority-functions-and-amendment-order-2016/article-14
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