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This is a draft item of legislation. This draft has since been made as a UK Statutory Instrument: The West Midlands Combined Authority (Business Rate Supplements Functions and Amendment) Order 2018 No. 880
4.—(1) The functions of the WMCA specified in article 3 are exercisable only by the Mayor(1).
(2) The members or officers of the WMCA may assist the Mayor in the exercise of the functions specified in article 3.
(3) For the purposes of the exercise of the functions specified in article 3 the Mayor may do anything that the WMCA may do under section 113A of the 2009 Act (general power of EPB or combined authority)(2).
(4) The Mayor must not make arrangements under section 107D(3)(b) of the 2009 Act (functions of mayors: general) in relation to the functions specified in paragraph (1), in relation to a political adviser appointed under article 23(1) of the West Midlands Combined Authority (Functions and Amendment) Order 2017(3).
The West Midland Combined Authority (Election of Mayor) Order 2016/933 provided for there to be a mayor of the combined authority. The first mayor was elected on 4th May 2017.
Section 113A was inserted by section 13 of the Localism Act 2011 and amended by section 23 of, and paragraph 25 of Schedule 5 to, the Cities and Local Government Devolution Act 2016.
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