Local Government and Elections (Wales) Act 2021

72Requested 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.