http://www.legislation.gov.uk/asc/2021/1/section/74/2021-01-21Local Government and Elections (Wales) Act 2021An Act of Senedd Cymru to make provision about local government; local government finance; local government elections; electoral registration and electoral administration; and for connected purposes.texttext/xmlenStatute Law Database2025-10-042021-01-21 PART 5 CHAPTER 4741The 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 specified in the regulations (“the relevant areas”), a function specified in the regulations.2But the Welsh Ministers may make regulations under this section only if the conditions set out in section 75 are satisfied.3Regulations under this section may specify only—aa function of the principal councils for the relevant areas that relates to—iimproving education;iitransport;bthe function of preparing a strategic development plan (as to which, see subsection (4));cthe economic well-being function.4Where the function of preparing a strategic development plan is specified in joint committee regulations, Part 6 of the Planning and Compulsory Purchase Act 2004 (c. 5) applies to the corporate joint committee.5Regulations under this section which specify a function of a principal council must make provision so that the function is either—aexercisable by the corporate joint committee instead of by the principal councils for the relevant areas, orbexercisable concurrently by the corporate joint committee and those principal councils.6A function of a principal council may be specified in regulations under this section by reference to a particular activity or activities.