# English Devolution and Community Empowerment Act 2026, Paragraph 5: Functions moving from strategic authorities to mayors outside London

Extent: E+W

(1) Regulations may provide for a function of—
(a) the mayoral strategic authorities other than the established mayoral strategic authorities, or
(b) the established mayoral strategic authorities other than the GLA,
to be exercisable by the mayors for the areas of those authorities.
(2) Regulations under this paragraph may provide for the function to be exercisable by the mayors—
(a) solely;
(b) concurrently or jointly with another person by which the function is already exercisable.
(3) Regulations under this paragraph which provide for a function to be exercisable jointly with another person may provide for the function to also be exercisable by the other person alone.
(4) Before making regulations under this paragraph the Secretary of State must consult the following—
(a) the affected strategic authorities;
(b) the mayors of the affected strategic authorities;
(c) the constituent councils of the affected strategic authorities;
(d) any other person who exercises the function to which the regulations relate, if their power to exercise it would be affected by the regulations;
(e) any other persons that the Secretary of State considers it appropriate to consult.
(5) In this paragraph “affected strategic authorities” means the strategic authorities to whose function regulations under this paragraph relate.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2026/23/schedule/27/paragraph/5 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/english-devolution-and-community-empowerment-act-2026/schedule-27/paragraph-5
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