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Amendment 170 seeks to prevent the Secretary of State from modifying the voting arrangements for a specific function of a combined authority or combined county authority. Clause 6 introduces default voting arrangements for all new functions of combined authorities and combined county authorities. This ensures that most functions will be subjected to votes that require a simple majority of members; in mayoral authorities the majority needs to include the mayor. This default voting arrangement strikes the right balance between empowering the constituent councils that make up the authority and the directly elected mayor.