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(1)The Secretary of State may by order establish as a body corporate a combined authority for an area that meets the following conditions.
(2)Condition A is that the area consists of the whole of two or more local government areas in England.
(3)Condition B is that no part of the area is separated from the rest of it by one or more local government areas that are not within the area.
(4)Condition C is that there is no local government area that is surrounded by local government areas that are within the area but that is not itself within the area.
(5)Condition D is that no part of the area forms part of—
(a)the area of another combined authority,
(b)the area of an EPB, or
(c)an integrated transport area.
(6)Condition E is that each local government area that forms part of the area was included in a scheme prepared and published under section 109.
(7)An order under this section must specify the name by which the combined authority is to be known.
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