153Power to require local authority to obtain advisory services
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(1)This section applies if the Welsh Ministers have the power to intervene in the exercise of social services functions by a local authority.
(2)The Welsh Ministers may direct the local authority to enter into a contract or other arrangement with a specified person, or a person falling within a specified class, for the provision to the authority of specified services of an advisory nature.
(3)The direction may require the contract or other arrangement to contain specified terms and conditions.
(4)In this section and section 154 “specified” means specified in a direction.