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.
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.
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.