Local Government and Elections (Wales) Act 2021

80 Amendment and revocation of joint committee regulations

(1) The Welsh Ministers may by regulations amend or revoke joint committee regulations.

(2) But the Welsh Ministers may make regulations under subsection (1) only if—

(a) in the case of regulations that amend regulations made under section 72 (requested joint committee regulations), the conditions set out in section 81 are satisfied;

(b) in the case of regulations that amend regulations made under section 74 so as to specify, modify or omit a function, other than so as to—

(i) specify, modify or omit a function which relates to improving education or transport;

(ii) specify or omit the function of preparing a strategic development plan;

(iii) specify or omit the economic well-being function,

the conditions set out in section 81 are satisfied;

(c) in any other case (including the case of regulations that amend regulations under section 74 to impose, modify or omit a prohibition, restriction or other limitation on the exercise of the economic well-being function), the conditions set out in section 82 are satisfied.

(3) Regulations under subsection (1) may not amend joint committee regulations so as to specify a function unless it is—

(a) a function of the principal councils in the corporate joint committee’s area;

(b) the economic well-being function;

(c) in the case of regulations that amend regulations made under section 74, the function of preparing a strategic development plan.

(4) Regulations under subsection (1) which amend joint committee regulations so as to specify a function of a principal council must make provision so that the function is either—

(a) exercisable by the corporate joint committee instead of by the principal councils in the corporate joint committee’s area, or

(b) exercisable concurrently by the corporate joint committee and those principal councils.

(5) Regulations under subsection (1) may amend joint committee regulations so as to specify a function of a principal council by reference to a particular activity or activities.

(6) Regulations under subsection (1) which—

(a) amend joint committee regulations so as to omit a function specified in those joint committee regulations, or

(b) revoke joint committee regulations (so as to abolish the corporate joint committee established by those regulations),

may provide that a function which will cease to be exercisable by the corporate joint committee, other than the economic well-being function or the function of preparing a strategic development plan, is to be exercisable by another person.

(7) The Welsh Ministers may by regulations revoke regulations made under this section.