# The West Midlands Combined Authority (Functions and Amendment) Order 2017, Article 21: Funding


(1) The constituent councils must meet any reasonably incurred costs of the Combined Authority, other than the costs mentioned in paragraph (4) to the extent that the Combined Authority has not decided to meet these costs from other resources available to the Combined Authority.
(2) Any amount payable by each of the constituent councils to ensure that the costs of the Combined Authority referred to in paragraph (1) 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 Combined Authority which resides in that council at the relevant date as estimated by the Statistics Board.
(3) The functions mentioned in article 6 may be funded out of the levy issued by the Combined Authority to the constituent councils under section 74 of the Local Government Finance Act 1988 and in accordance with the Transport Levying Bodies Regulations 1992.
(4) Subject to paragraph (5), the constituent councils must meet the costs of the expenditure reasonably incurred in, or in connection with, the exercise of the functions specified in articles 3, 4, 5, 7, 8 9, 10 (only in relation to the function specified in section 9(2) of the 2008 Act) and 23, to the extent that the Mayor has not decided to meet these costs from other resources available to the Combined Authority.
(5) In relation to the expenditure mentioned in paragraph (4)—
(a) to the extent to which such expenditure is met by amounts payable under arrangements made under paragraph (2)—
(i) the Mayor must agree with the Combined Authority the total expenditure mentioned in paragraph (4) 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.
(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/2017/9780111155349/article/21 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/draft-west-midlands-combined-authority-functions-and-amendment-order-2017/article-21
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