Local Government and Elections (Wales) Act 2021

75 Conditions to be met before making regulations under section 74

(1) The conditions mentioned in section 74(2) are as follows.

(2) The first condition is that the Welsh Ministers have consulted the following on a draft of the regulations—

(a) the principal councils for the principal areas to be specified in the regulations,

(b) local people in the principal councils’ areas,

(c) each of the councils for communities in the principal councils’ areas,

(d) the National Park authority for a National Park, any part of which is in the area of any of the principal councils,

(e) the public services board or boards for the principal councils’ areas,

(f) every trade union which is recognised (within the meaning of the Trade Union and Labour Relations (Consolidation) Act 1992 (c. 52)) by one or more of the principal councils, and

(g) such other persons as the Welsh Ministers consider appropriate.

(3) The second condition is that, if the condition in subsection (2) is satisfied and the Welsh Ministers intend to make regulations under section 74, they have given notice of their intention to—

(a) the principal councils for the principal areas to be specified in the regulations, and

(b) if the regulations specify the function of preparing a strategic development plan, the National Park authority for a National Park any part of which is in any of the principal areas to be specified in the regulations.

(4) The first condition may be satisfied by consultation undertaken before the coming into force of this section.