PART 5

COLLABORATIVE WORKING BY PRINCIPAL COUNCILS
CHAPTER 3

ESTABLISHING CORPORATE JOINT COMMITTEES where request has been made

Requested joint committee regulations

Requested joint committee regulations
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1
The Welsh Ministers may by regulations establish a body corporate (to be known as a corporate joint committee) to exercise, in relation to the principal areas of the principal councils that made the joint committee application (“the relevant councils”), a function specified in the regulations.
2
But the Welsh Ministers may make regulations under this section only if the conditions set out in section 73 are satisfied.
3
Regulations under this section may specify only—
a
a function of the principal councils that made the application;
b
the economic well-being function.
4
Regulations under this section which specify a function of a principal council must make provision so that the function is either—
a
exercisable by the corporate joint committee instead of by the relevant councils, or
b
exercisable concurrently by the corporate joint committee and the relevant councils.
5
A function of a principal council may be specified in regulations under this section by reference to a particular activity or activities.