PART 7

MERGERS AND RESTRUCTURING OF PRINCIPAL AREAS
CHAPTER 2

RESTRUCTURING OF PRINCIPAL AREAS

Abolition requests

Abolition requests
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1
A principal council may, by notice in writing (“an abolition request”), ask the Welsh Ministers to consider abolishing the council and its principal area.
2
An abolition request must set out the principal council’s reasons for seeking abolition.
3
The principal council must publish the abolition request as soon as reasonably practicable after making the request.
4
Section 101 of the 1972 Act (arrangements for discharge of functions by local authorities) does not apply to the function of making an abolition request.
5
The function of making an abolition request is not to be the responsibility of an executive of the principal council under executive arrangements.
6
An elected mayor is to be treated as a councillor of the principal council for the purposes of the function of making an abolition request.