# English Devolution and Community Empowerment Act 2026, Paragraph 16: Functions which cannot be exercised by all strategic authorities or mayors in a class

Extent: E+W

(1) This paragraph applies to a power under this Schedule to make provision in relation to a function and a class of strategic authorities or mayors (the “relevant class”).
(2) The power must be read as enabling regulations to make the provision in relation to the function and relevant class even if that function is not, or would not be, capable of exercise by some of the strategic authorities or mayors within that class for any reason.
(3) Those reasons include the function being exercisable in relation to a thing or location which does not exist in the area of a strategic authority.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2026/23/schedule/27/paragraph/16 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/english-devolution-and-community-empowerment-act-2026/schedule-27/paragraph-16
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