Facilitating mergers
128Duties of merging councils to facilitate transfer
(1)A merging council must—
(a)for the purposes of the merger, co-operate with the Welsh Ministers, the other merging council or councils and any other person exercising functions in relation to the merger, and
(b)take all reasonable steps to—
(i)facilitate the economic, effective and efficient transfer of its functions, staff, property, rights and liabilities to the new principal council, and
(ii)ensure that the new principal council and its staff are in a position to perform the new principal council’s functions effectively.
(2)The Welsh Ministers may direct a merging council to take, or not to take, any action the Welsh Ministers consider appropriate for the purpose of discharging the council’s duty under this section.