# English Devolution and Community Empowerment Act 2026, Paragraph 11: Exclusion of all mayoral combined authorities from scrutiny regime in Schedule 5A LDEDCA 2009

Extent: E+W
Status: prospective

(1) Schedule 5A (as amended by paragraph 6 of this Schedule) is amended in accordance with this paragraph.
(2) In the heading, for “Combined Authorities except EMSAs” substitute “Non-mayoral Combined Authorities”.
(3) For paragraph A1 substitute—
“A1 (1) This Schedule applies to a non-mayoral combined authority.
(2) Accordingly, in this Schedule “combined authority” means only a non-mayoral combined authority.
(3) For provision about the scrutiny of mayoral combined authorities, see Schedule 5AA .”
(4) In paragraph 1 (functions of overview and scrutiny committees)—
(a) omit sub-paragraph (3);
(b) in sub-paragraph (4), omit “and (3)(a)”.
(5) In paragraph 2 (overview and scrutiny committees: supplementary provision)—
(a) in sub-paragraph (3), omit “(including, in the case of a mayoral combined authority, the mayor for the combined authority's area or deputy mayor)”;
(b) in sub-paragraph (6)(a), omit “(including, in the case of a mayoral combined authority, the mayor for the combined authority's area and deputy mayor)”.
(6) In paragraph 3 (power to make further provision about overview and scrutiny committees), for sub-paragraph (5) substitute—
“(5) For the purposes of sub-paragraph (4)(b) “appropriate person” means a person who is not a member of the registered political party which has the most representatives among the members of the constituent councils (or, if there is no such party because two or more parties have the same number of representatives, is not a member of any of those parties).”

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2026/23/schedule/5/paragraph/11 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/english-devolution-and-community-empowerment-act-2026/schedule-5/paragraph-11
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