13 Economic prosperity boards and combined authorities
Localism Act 2011 (2011 c 20) | Legislation

13  Economic prosperity boards and combined authorities

(1)     In Part 6 of the Local Democracy, Economic Development and Construction Act 2009 (economic prosperity boards and combined authorities) after section 113 insert—

“General powers of EPBs and combined authorities

113A General power of EPB or combined authority

(1)     An EPB or combined authority may do—

(a)     anything it considers appropriate for the purposes of the carrying-out of any of its functions (its “functional purposes”),

(b)     anything it considers appropriate for purposes incidental to its functional purposes,

(c)     anything it considers appropriate for purposes indirectly incidental to its functional purposes through any number of removes,

(d)     anything it considers to be connected with—

(i)     any of its functions, or

(ii)     anything it may do under paragraph (a), (b) or (c), and

(e)     for a commercial purpose anything which it may do under any of paragraphs (a) to (d) otherwise than for a commercial purpose.

(2)     Where subsection (1) confers power on an EPB or combined authority to do something, it confers power (subject to section 113B) to do it anywhere in the United Kingdom or elsewhere.

(3)     Power conferred on an EPB or combined authority by subsection

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