Part 2: Local Democracy and Devolution Constitution of CCAs Section 10: Constitutional arrangements Effect
Subsection (1) allows the Secretary of State to make regulations about the constitutional arrangements of an individual CCA.
	Subsection (2) enables the regulations on constitutional arrangements to include the membership of the CCA, the voting power of its members, the executive arrangements of the CCA (which are defined in subsection (3)), and the functions of any executive body of the CCA.
	Subsection (4) states that regulations on constitutional arrangements must provide for members of the CCA other than the mayor, the non-constituent members and associate members, to be appointed by the CCA’s constituent councils, and for the constituent councils to appoint at least one of their elected members as a member of the CCA.
	Subsection (5) enables the regulations on constitutional arrangements to include provisions in relation to a CCA’s executive body. In practice, this will concern the functions which the executive body may perform on behalf of the CCA and the procedures for doing so.
	Subsection (6) states that these regulations cannot provide for a CCA’s budget to be agreed by anyone other than the CCA itself.
	Subsection (7) provides that regulations regarding the constitutional arrangements of the CCA may not make provision conflicting with the provisions relating to appointment of non-constituent or associate members by that CCA or procedure for CCA consents in accordance with the relevant regulations.
	Subsection (8) – (10) provide that the Secretary of State can only make regulations about a CCA’s constitutional arrangements if the area’s constituent councils and the CCA (where one already exists) consent, apart from where the regulations relate to changing an existing CCA area’s boundaries (as set out in subsection (9)) or to the direct conferral of general functions on a mayor (as set out in subsection (10)).
	Subsection (11) defines the term "constituent council" as used in Chapter 1 as a county council, or a unitary district council, for an area within the CCA’s area or proposed area.