Article 22 Joint committees

(1)

The Mayor may enter into arrangements jointly with the Combined Authority, the constituent councils and other local authorities in accordance with section 101(5) of the Local Government Act 1972^f1 for the discharge of the general functions of the Combined Authority which are exercisable only by the Mayor pursuant to article 21.

(2)

In this article, “local authority” has the same meaning as in section 101(13) of the Local Government Act 1972^f2.

Annotations

Footnotes

f1: 1972 c. 70. The term “local authority” in section 101(13) must be read in light of the meaning given to that term in section 270(1) of that Act.
f2: Section 101(13) was amended by Schedule 14 to the Local Government Act 1985 (c. 51), Schedule 13 to the Education Reform Act 1988 (c. 40), section 332 of the Greater London Authority Act 1999 (c. 29), Schedule 13 to the Local Government and Public Involvement in Health Act 2007 (c. 28), Schedule 6 to the 2009 Act, Schedule 16 to the Police Reform and Social Responsibility Act 2011 (c. 13), Schedule 13 to the Deregulation Act 2015 (c. 20), Schedule 5 to the Cities and Local Government Devolution Act 2016 (c. 1), Schedule 2 to the Policing and Crime Act 2017 (c. 3) and Schedule 4 to the 2023 Act.