Member

102: Schedule 7, page 155, line 21, at end insert— “(5A) But the mayor for the area of a mayoral combined authority or a mayoral CCA is not the appropriate authority in relation to an approval order if the application for that approval order is made on or before the day on which the first mayor for that area takes office; and accordingly—(a) the Secretary of State is (by virtue of subsection (2)(b)) the appropriate authority in relation to that approval order (and continues to be the appropriate authority in relation to that approval order after the first mayor takes office);(b) the application for that approval order must be made to the Secretary of State.”Member’s explanatory statement This would ensure that an approval order can be requested and made where the appropriate authority would normally be the mayor for the area of a combined authority or CCA, but the first mayor for that area has not yet taken office.