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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/english-devolution-and-community-empowerment-act-2026/schedule-27/paragraph-27",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/english-devolution-and-community-empowerment-act-2026/schedule-27/paragraph-27.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/27",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "27",
  "heading": "Mayoral strategic authorities: period before first mayor takes office",
  "text": "(1) The fact that a mayoral strategic authority is in the preparatory phase—\n(a) does not prevent regulations under this Schedule from making provision which applies to—\n(i) the mayor for its area, or\n(ii) the mayoral strategic authority; and\n(b) where a provision of this Schedule requires consultation with the members of a class which includes the mayoral strategic authority or the mayor for its area, does not—\n(i) prevent that requirement from being complied with by a consultation that does not involve the mayor, or\n(ii) require further consultation with the mayor after the first mayor has taken office.\n(2) Any power under this Schedule to make provision in relation to mayoral strategic authorities or mayors (the “relevant class”) must be read as enabling regulations to make provision in relation to the relevant class which applies only to—\n(a) those of the mayoral strategic authorities in the relevant class which are in the preparatory phase, or\n(b) those of the mayors in the relevant class that are mayors for the areas of mayoral strategic authorities which are in the preparatory phase.\n(3) Regulations under this Schedule may make provision which applies only to—\n(a) mayoral strategic authorities which are in a preparatory phase that is of a duration specified in the regulations, or\n(b) mayors for the areas of mayoral strategic authorities which are in a preparatory phase that is of a duration specified in the regulations.\n(4) For the purposes of this paragraph a mayoral strategic authority is in the “preparatory phase”—\n(a) after the authority has been established, but\n(b) before the first mayor for the authority’s area has taken office.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 27 para. 27 in force at Royal Assent for specified purposes, see s. 108(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I2",
      "text": "Sch. 27 para. 27 in force at 29.6.2026 in so far as not already in force, see s. 108(5)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2026/23/schedule/27/paragraph/27",
    "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."
}