Part 13: General Schedule 3: Mayors for Combined County Authority areas: PCC functions Effect
Schedule 3 (paragraph 1 and 2) enables the Secretary of State to provide by regulations that the mayor of a CCA may exercise all functions of a police and crime commissioner or a specified number of those powers. The Schedule further provides that some functions that must always be exercisable by the mayor (including holding the relevant chief constable to account and issuing a police and crime plan).
	Schedule 3 (paragraph 3) also details a number of essential matters that, where functions of a police and crime commissioner are transferred to a mayor, the Secretary of State must put in place by regulations. These include: enabling the mayor to appoint a deputy mayor for functions of a police and crime commissioner, to be known as a deputy mayor for policing and crime; requiring the establishment of a scrutiny panel for policing matters (under paragraph 4); giving the panel the power to suspend the mayor from exercising functions of a police and crime commissioner (paragraph 8); and requiring the mayor to keep a police fund and prepare an annual budget in relation to the exercise of functions of a police and crime commissioner (paragraph 7).
	Schedule 3 provides that a police and crime panel may have scrutiny functions over any general functions of the mayor which have been arranged for the deputy mayor for policing and crime to exercise, ensuring scrutiny of these functions is undertaken by the appropriate body (paragraph 5). The Secretary of State may by regulations make provision about the payment of allowances by members of a police and crime panel (paragraph 6).
	The Secretary of State is also required to make provision in respect of the conduct of the mayor and the deputy mayor for policing and crime as "relevant officers" for the purposes of regulations made under section 31(1)(a) to (c) of the Police Reform and Social Responsibility Act 2011, regarding the making and handling of complaints about, the recording of matters in the case of which there is an indication that a relevant office holder may have committed a criminal offence, and the manner in which qualifying complaints and conduct matters are investigated or otherwise dealt with (paragraph 9).
	Where a mayor is to exercise functions of a police and crime commissioner, paragraph 10 of Schedule 3 requires the Secretary of State to apply the same disqualification criteria to persons being elected or holding office as a mayor as currently apply to police and crime commissioners. These provisions will be additional to the criteria that already exist in relation to mayors (paragraphs 7 and 8 of Schedule 2) and therefore mean that more stringent qualification and disqualification criteria can be applied to CCA mayors that exercise functions of a police and crime commissioner, in line with the criteria that currently apply in relation to police and crime commissioners.
	The Secretary of State must require the mayor to have regard in the exercise of police and crime commissioner functions to the policing protocol issued under section 79 of the Police Reform and Social Responsibility Act 2011 (paragraph 11).
	The Secretary of State may also make provision for the application of enactments to apply to the mayor, in the exercise of police and crime commissioner functions, as though the mayor were a police and crime commissioner.