Part 2: Local Democracy and Devolution CCAs and their areas Section 9: Combined county authorities and their areas Effect
This section provides that the Secretary of State can make regulations establishing a CCA for an area which meets conditions specified in section 9(2) and (3). These conditions allow a CCA’s membership to consist solely of upper-tier local authorities (county councils, unitary county councils and unitary district councils) and for the CCA to be established over an appropriate geography (e.g. a functional economic area or whole county geography), enabling functions to be effectively exercised and the economic, social and environmental wellbeing of those who live or work in the area to be improved.
	Subsection (2) specifies that a CCA’s area must consist of the whole area of a two-tier county council, plus a minimum of one or more whole area of a two-tier county council, unitary county council or unitary district council in England.
	Subsection (3) requires that no part of a CCA’s area may form part of another CCA’s area, a combined authority’s area or an integrated transport area.
	Subsection (4) requires regulations under subsection (1) to specify the name that the CCA will be known by.
	Subsection (5) provides definitions for terms used in this chapter, including "two-tier county council" and "unitary county council."