Chapter 2: Other Provision Combined authorities Section 59: Consent to changes to combined authority’s area Background
Part 6 of the 2009 Act provides for the establishment of and changes to combined authorities by order, subject to various consent requirements.
	Section 106 of the 2009 Act enables the area of a combined authority to be changed, by order, through the addition or removal of a whole local government area. Section 59 amends the consent requirements in section 106 before the Secretary of State can make an order changing a combined authority’s boundary. It also makes changes to provisions in section 104 of the 2009 Act about the combined authority’s constitutional arrangements which are a direct result of an order changing the area of a combined authority.