Article 21 FundingI1

England and Wales

(1)

The constituent councils must meet any reasonably incurred costs of the Combined Authority, other than the costs mentioned in paragraph (4) to the extent that the Combined Authority has not decided to meet these costs from other resources available to the Combined Authority.

(2)

Any amount payable by each of the constituent councils to ensure that the costs of the Combined Authority referred to in paragraph (1) are met is to be determined by apportioning such costs between the constituent councils in such proportions as they may agree or, in default of such agreement, in proportion to the total resident population of the Combined Authority which resides in that council at the relevant date as estimated by the Statistics Board^f1.

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(4)

Subject to paragraph (5), the constituent councils must meet the costs of the expenditure reasonably incurred in, or in connection with, the exercise of F2any mayoral function, to the extent that the Mayor has not decided to meet these costs from other resources available to the Combined Authority.

(5)

In relation to the expenditure mentioned in paragraph (4)—

(a)

to the extent to which such expenditure is met by amounts payable under arrangements made under paragraph (2)—

(i)

the Mayor must agree with the Combined Authority the total expenditure mentioned in paragraph (4) in advance of incurring this expenditure; and

(ii)

in the absence of the agreement specified in paragraph (i), no such expenditure may be incurred;

(b)

any precept issued in relation to such expenditure under section 40 of the Local Government Finance Act 1992^f2 is to be disregarded from any calculation of the costs of the expenditure.

(6)

For the purposes of this article the relevant date in relation to a payment for a financial year is 30th June in the financial year which commenced two years prior to the financial year in which such payment is made.

Annotations

Textual amendments

F1: Art. 21(3) omitted (4.6.2026) by virtue of The English Devolution and Community Empowerment Act 2026 (Consequential Amendments and Revocations) (England) Regulations 2026 (S.I. 2026/519), regs. 1(2), 27(7)(a)
F2: Words in art. 21(4) substituted (4.6.2026) by The English Devolution and Community Empowerment Act 2026 (Consequential Amendments and Revocations) (England) Regulations 2026 (S.I. 2026/519), regs. 1(2), 27(7)(b)

Commencement

I1: Art. 21 in force at 8.5.2017, see art. 1(2)

Footnotes

f1: Section 25 of the Statistics and Registration Service Act 2007 (c. 18) provides that the Statistics Board is responsible for the functions in section 19 of the Registration Service Act 1953 (c. 37) in relation to the annual abstract of number of births, deaths and marriages.
f2: 1992 c. 14. Section 40 was amended by section 83 of the 1999 Act, section 79 of, and paragraph 7 of Schedule 17 to, the Localism Act 2011 and section 5 of the 2016 Act.