Part 2: Local Democracy and Devolution Mayors for CCA areas Section 27: Power to provide for election of mayor Effect
Subsection (1) enables the Secretary of State to make regulations to provide for there to be an elected mayor of a CCA area, who will be a member of, and chair, the CCA.
	Subsection (2) provides that the electorate for the election of a mayor of a CCA is the local government electorate for the CCA area; subsection (3) states that "local government elector" has the same meaning as in section 270(1) of the Local Government Act 1972.
	Subsection (4) introduces Schedule 2, which makes provision for a default term of office for a mayor; default dates on which elections for mayors are to take place; the voting system and franchise; and provisions for regulations to be made as to the dates on which and years in which elections for the return of an elected mayor will take place, the intervals between elections for the return of an elected mayor, the term of office of an elected mayor, and the filling of vacancies in the office of elected mayor.
	Subsections (5) and (6) provide that the mayor of a CCA area can be titled "mayor" and will be a member of, and chair, the CCA.
	Subsection (7) provides that regulations made under subsection (1) providing for there to be an elected mayor of a CCA area cannot be revoked to make a CCA non-mayoral via further regulations made under subsection (1); however, a mayoral CCA can be dissolved – including the office of mayor – by regulations made under section 26.
	Subsection (8) defines "mayoral CCA" as used in this Chapter.