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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/english-devolution-and-community-empowerment-act-2026/schedule-27/paragraph-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/english-devolution-and-community-empowerment-act-2026/schedule-27/paragraph-2.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2026/23",
  "legislation_title": "English Devolution and Community Empowerment Act 2026",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/english-devolution-and-community-empowerment-act-2026",
  "path": "schedule/27/paragraph/2",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Mayors outside London",
  "text": "(1) Regulations may make provision conferring an eligible function on the mayors within a class specified sub-paragraph (3).\n(2) Regulations may make provisions modifying a function as it is exercisable by the mayors within a class specified in sub-paragraph (3).\n(3) These are the classes referred to in sub-paragraphs (1) and (2)—\n(a) mayors for the areas of mayoral strategic authorities other than the established mayoral strategic authorities;\n(b) mayors for the areas of established mayoral strategic authorities other than the Mayor of London.\n(4) Regulations may not be made under this section unless the Secretary of State is satisfied that it is appropriate to do so having regard to the need to secure the effective exercise of the function concerned.\n(5) See also section 18 of the Cities and Local Government Devolution Act 2016 (devolving health service functions) which contains further limitations.\n(6) Before making regulations under this paragraph the Secretary of State must consult the following—\n(a) the affected mayors;\n(b) the strategic authorities for whose areas the affected mayors are the mayor;\n(c) the constituent councils of those strategic authorities;\n(d) any other person who exercises the function to which the regulations relate;\n(e) any other persons that the Secretary of State considers it appropriate to consult.\n(7) In this paragraph “affected mayors” means the mayors—\n(a) on which a function would be conferred by regulations under sub-paragraph (1), or\n(b) whose exercise of a function would be affected by regulations under sub-paragraph (2).",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 27 para. 2 in force at Royal Assent for specified purposes, see s. 108(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I2",
      "text": "Sch. 27 para. 2 in force at 29.6.2026 in so far as not already in force, see s. 108(5)"
    }
  ],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2026/23/schedule/27/paragraph/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-05T03:43:57.197615+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}