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Information requirementsE+W

37Requirement on merging authority to provide information to Welsh MinistersE+W

The Welsh Ministers may require a merging authority to provide to the Welsh Ministers any information which the Welsh Ministers consider it appropriate to require to be provided to them for the purposes of giving effect to, or otherwise in connection with, the transfer of the functions of the merging authority to the new principal local authority for the new principal area into which the merging authority's area is to be merged.

38Requirement on merging authority to provide information to other authoritiesE+W

(1)The Welsh Ministers may require a merging authority to provide to a relevant body any information which the Welsh Ministers consider it appropriate to require to be provided by it to the relevant body for the purposes of giving effect to, or otherwise in connection with, the transfer of the functions of the merging authority to the new principal local authority for the new principal area into which the merging authority's area is to be merged.

(2)The following are relevant bodies—

(a)any other merging authority whose area is to be merged into the same new principal area;

(b)the transition committee established by the merging authority and another merging authority or authorities;

(c)the shadow authority for the new principal area.