Section 32C — Public authorities: duty to have regard to shared local growth priorities

(1) [F1 A relevant public authority must have regard to a shared local growth priority of a mayoral CCA when—]

(a) [F1 exercising, at the request of the CCA, a function which could reasonably be expected to have an effect on that priority;]

(b) [F1 preparing a bid for public funding for an activity the objectives of which align with that priority;]

(c) [F1 preparing a statutory plan or strategy which relates to the priority.]

(2) [F1 Where a relevant public authority carries out activities in England and anywhere else in the United Kingdom, the duty under subsection (1) only applies in relation to activities that the authority carries out in England.]

(3) [F1 A “relevant public authority” means a public authority specified in regulations made by the Secretary of State.]

(4) [F1 In this section—“enactment” includes an enactment comprised in subordinate legislation within the meaning of the Interpretation Act 1978; “Minister of the Crown” has the same meaning as in the Ministers of the Crown Act 1975; “public authority” means any public authority other than— (a) the Welsh Ministers; (b) a devolved Welsh authority within the meaning of section 157A of the Government of Wales Act 2006; “public funding” means funding from a Minister of the Crown or government department; “shared local growth priorities” has the meaning given by section 32A(2)(b); “statutory plan or strategy” means a plan or strategy that a public authority is required by an enactment to issue or publish.]

(5) [F1 References in this section to an enactment or to provision made under an enactment are to an enactment whenever passed or (as the case may be) to provision whenever the instrument containing it is made.]

Amendment notes

1. F1 S. 32C inserted (29.4.2026 for specified purposes, 29.6.2026 in so far as not already in force) by English Devolution and Community Empowerment Act 2026 (c. 23), s. 108(1)(5), Sch. 22 para. 1(4) (with s. 102)