Local Government (Wales) Act 1994

10 Community councils for groups of communities

For section 29 of the 1972 Act substitute—

“29 Community councils for groups of communities

(1) A community meeting of a community may apply to the principal council within whose area the community is situated—

(a) for an order grouping the community with some neighbouring community or communities which lie in the same principal area as the applicant, under a common community council, or

(b) for an order adding the community to a group of communities—

(i) which are all in the area of the same principal council as the community; and

(ii) for which there is a common community council.

(2) If, on any application under this section, the principal council are satisfied that—

(a) the relevant requirements of section 29B below and Schedule 12 to this Act have been complied with, and

(b) in the case of an application under subsection (1)(b) above, that a community meeting of each of the communities in the group has consented to the applicant becoming a member of the group,

they shall make the order applied for.

(3) Subject to section 30 below, an application under subsection (1) above may be made at any time.

(4) An order under this section shall provide for the name of the group in both an English and a Welsh form.

(5) An order under this section shall—

(a) make such provision as appears to the council making it to be necessary for the election, in accordance with this Act and Part I of the Representation of the [1983 c. 2.] People Act 1983, of separate representatives on the community council for each community or for the wards of any community or, in the case of an order which adds a community to a group, for that community or for the wards of that community; and

(b) provide for the dissolution of the separate community council of any community included in the group.

(6) An order under this section shall make such provision as appears to the council making it to be necessary for the application to the communities included in the group of all or any of the provisions of section 79 of the [1993 c. 10.] Charities Act 1993 (parochial charities) and of any of the provisions of this Act with respect to the custody of community documents, so as to preserve the separate rights of each community.

(7) An order under this section may provide for any necessary adaptations of this Act in relation to the group of communities.

(8) This section is subject to section 29B below.”