Local Government and Elections (Wales) Act 2021

PART 3 Transition committees of merging councils and restructuring councils

Sub-committees of transition committees for merging councils or restructuring councils

5 (1) A transition committee may establish one or more sub-committees.

(2) The function of a sub-committee of a transition committee is to advise the transition committee on matters referred to the sub-committee by the transition committee.

(3) The membership of a sub-committee of a transition committee is to be determined by the transition committee.

(4) If a transition committee appoints as a member of a sub-committee a person who is not a member of one of the merging councils or restructuring councils, that person may not vote.

Provision of funding, facilities and information etc. to transition committees for merging councils or restructuring councils

6 (1) The merging councils or restructuring councils must meet the costs of a transition committee in the proportions which they agree or, in default of agreement, which are determined by the Welsh Ministers.

(2) The merging councils or restructuring councils must provide to a transition committee the facilities and resources (including staff), information and documents reasonably requested by the transition committee (or any sub-committee of the transition committee) in order to enable it to exercise its functions.

Transition committees for merging councils or restructuring councils: further provision

7 (1) The Welsh Ministers may direct a transition committee to exercise its functions in accordance with the direction.

(2) Neither a governance and audit committee nor an overview and scrutiny committee of a merging council or restructuring council may exercise any of its functions in relation to anything done by a transition committee; and for this purpose—

• “governance and audit committee” (“pwyllgor llywodraethu ac archwilio”) has the meaning given by section 81 of the 2011 Measure;

• “overview and scrutiny committee” (“pwyllgor trosolwg a chraffu”) has the meaning given by section 21(1) of the 2000 Act.

(3) In this Part of this Schedule—

(a) “transition committee” means a transition committee established in accordance with paragraph 1 or by virtue of paragraph 4;

(b) a reference to a merging council in relation to a transition committee is to a merging council by which the transition committee is established;

(c) a reference to a restructuring council in relation to a transition committee is to a restructuring council by which the transition committee is established.

(4) Until section 115 comes into force, the references in sub-paragraph (2) to a governance and audit committee are to be read as references to an audit committee.