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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-democracy-economic-development-and-construction-act-2009/section-113ZA",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/2009/20",
  "legislation_title": "Local Democracy, Economic Development and Construction Act 2009",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-democracy-economic-development-and-construction-act-2009",
  "path": "section/113ZA",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "113ZA",
  "heading": "Requirements in connection with boundary changes or dissolution of combined authority",
  "text": "(1) The Secretary of State may make an order under section 106 (boundary changes) or 107 (dissolution) in relation to an existing combined authority only if the following requirements are met.\n(2) The Secretary of State considers that the statutory test is met.\n(3) For the purposes of subsection (2), the reference in the statutory test to “the area”—\n(a) in relation to an order under section 106, means the area after the local government area in question has been added or removed, or\n(b) in relation to an order under section 107, means the area of the combined authority.\n(4) The order must—\n(a) implement a proposal submitted to the Secretary of State in accordance with section 112A, with or without modifications,\n(b) implement a proposal of which notice was given under section 112B, with or without modifications, or\n(c) implement a proposal which the Secretary of State is satisfied that the relevant consenting authorities have consented to in principle (see sections 113ZB and 113ZC: relevant consenting authorities).\n(5) If the order falls under subsection (4)(a) or (c), the consultation requirement must be met.\n(6) If the order falls under subsection (4)(b), the Secretary of State must in making the order have regard to any representations received before the end of the period specified in the notice.\n(7) The “consultation requirement” is that the Secretary of State has consulted—\n(a) if the order falls under subsection (4)(a), such persons (if any) as the Secretary of State considers it necessary to consult about—\n(i) the proposal that the order will implement, and\n(ii) any modifications to that proposal;\n(b) if the order falls under subsection (4)(c), the relevant consultees about the proposal.\n(8) Subsection (9) applies where the Secretary of State is considering whether to make an order under section 106 and—\n(a) part of the area to be created is separated from the rest of it by one or more local government areas that are not within the area, or\n(b) a local government area that is not within the area to be created is surrounded by local government areas that are within the area.\n(9) In deciding whether to make the order under section 106, the Secretary of State must have regard to the likely effect of the change to the combined authority's area on the exercise of functions equivalent to those of the combined authority's functions in each local government area that is next to any part of the area to be created by the order.\n(10) In this section—\n“relevant consultee” —\n(a)in relation to an order under section 106 means—\n(i)the council of the local government area to be added to or removed from the area of the combined authority;\n(ii)if the local government area is to be added to or removed from a mayoral combined authority, the mayor of that authority;\n(iii)if the local government area is to be added to or removed from a non-mayoral combined authority, the combined authority;\n(iv)any other persons that the Secretary of State considers appropriate;\n(b)in relation to an order under section 107 means—\n(i)the constituent councils of the combined authority that is to be abolished;\n(ii)if the combined authority that is to be abolished is a mayoral combined authority, the mayor of that authority;\n(iii)if the combined authority that is to be abolished is a non-mayoral combined authority, the combined authority;\n(iv)any other persons that the Secretary of State considers appropriate;\n“statutory test” has the meaning given by section 110(6).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
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      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Ss. 113ZA-113ZC inserted (29.4.2026 except so far as it relates to Sch. 1 paras. 18, 39) by English Devolution and Community Empowerment Act 2026 (c. 23), s. 108(1)(3), Sch. 1 para. 20 (with s. 102)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2009/20/section/113ZA",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:10:57.702412+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."
}