Local Government and Elections (Wales) Act 2021 (asc1)

PART 5 COLLABORATIVE WORKING BY PRINCIPAL COUNCILS

CHAPTER 3 ESTABLISHING CORPORATE JOINT COMMITTEES where request has been made

Applications to establish a corporate joint committee

70 Application by principal councils to establish a corporate joint committee

(1) Any two or more principal councils may jointly make an application (a “joint committee application”) to the Welsh Ministers, asking them to consider making regulations under section 72 establishing a corporate joint committee to exercise—

(a) a function of those councils;

(b) the economic well-being function,

in relation to the principal areas of those councils.

(2) If, following receipt of a joint committee application, the Welsh Ministers decide not to make regulations under section 72, they must notify the principal councils that made the application.