67.—(1) The Department may by order specify the bodies or persons who are to be the community planning partners of a council.
(2) The Department must not make an order containing provisions under subsection (1) unless a draft of the order has been laid before, and approved by resolution of, the Assembly.
(3) The Department must not make an order under subsection (1) unless it has consulted—
(a)the bodies and persons specified in the order as community planning partners of a council;
(b)district councils; and
(c)such other bodies and persons as the Department considers appropriate.
(4) Subsections (2) and (3) do not apply to an order under subsection (1) which is made solely in consequence of a change of name of a body or in consequence of a body ceasing to exist; but such an order is subject to negative resolution.