PART 5

COLLABORATIVE WORKING BY PRINCIPAL COUNCILS
CHAPTER 4

ESTABLISHING CORPORATE JOINT COMMITTEES WHERE NO REQUEST HAS BEEN MADE

Joint committee regulations where no request has been made
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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 specified in the regulations (“the relevant areas”), 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 75 are satisfied.
3
Regulations under this section may specify only—
a
a function of the principal councils for the relevant areas that relates to—
i
improving education;
ii
transport;
b
the function of preparing a strategic development plan (as to which, see subsection (4));
c
the economic well-being function.
4
Where 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.
5
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 principal councils for the relevant areas, or
b
exercisable concurrently by the corporate joint committee and those principal councils.
6
A function of a principal council may be specified in regulations under this section by reference to a particular activity or activities.