Section 40B Mayor’s power to convene meetings with local partnersF1

The Mayor may convene meetings with local partners to consider relevant local matters.

In exercising the function of convening meetings, the Mayor must have regard to any guidance issued for this purpose by the Secretary of State.

If the Mayor notifies a local partner that the Mayor intends to convene a meeting under this section with that local partner, the local partner must respond to the notification.

In responding to a notification given by the Mayor, a local partner must have regard to any guidance issued for this purpose by the Secretary of State.

In this section—

• “local partner” means a person specified, or of a description specified, in regulations made by the Secretary of State;

• “relevant local matter”, in relation to the Mayor of London, means a matter which relates both to—

  1. (a)

     Greater London, and

  2. (b)

     any aspect of any area of competence set out in section 2 of the English Devolution and Community Empowerment Act 2026.