{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/levelling-up-and-regeneration-act-2023/section-48B",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/2023/55",
  "legislation_title": "Levelling-up and Regeneration Act 2023",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/levelling-up-and-regeneration-act-2023",
  "path": "section/48B",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "48B",
  "heading": "Relevant consenting authorities in relation to regulations under section 25",
  "text": "(1) The “relevant consenting authorities” in relation to regulations under section 25 means—\n(a) the relevant council in relation to the relevant local government area to be added to or removed from the area of the CCA, and\n(b) if the CCA that the local government area is to be added to or removed from is a mayoral CCA, the mayor of the CCA;\n(c) if the CCA that the local government area is to be added to or removed from is a non-mayoral CCA, the CCA.\n(2) The “relevant council” in relation to a relevant local government area is—\n(a) if the local government area is the area of a county council, the county council;\n(b) if the local government area is the area of a unitary district council, the unitary district council.\n(3) Where a CCA is a relevant consenting authority, the question of whether to consent in principle for the purpose of section 48A(4)(c) is to be decided at a meeting of the CCA by a simple majority of the voting members of the authority who are present at the meeting.\n(4) A reference in subsection (3) to a voting member—\n(a) includes a substitute member who may act in place of a voting member;\n(b) does not include a non-constituent member.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Ss. 48A-48C inserted (29.4.2026 except so far as it relates to Sch. 1 paras. 18, 39 of the amending Act) by English Devolution and Community Empowerment Act 2026 (c. 23), s. 108(1)(3), Sch. 1 para. 41 (with s. 102) (with saving and transitional provision in S.I. 2026/482, regs. 1(2), 2)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2023/55/section/48B",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T08:50:40.116941+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."
}