PART 5COLLABORATIVE WORKING BY PRINCIPAL COUNCILS

CHAPTER 3ESTABLISHING CORPORATE JOINT COMMITTEES where request has been made

Requested joint committee regulations

73Conditions to be met before making requested joint committee regulations

1

The conditions mentioned in section 72(2) are as follows.

2

The first condition is that the Welsh Ministers have received a joint committee application.

3

The second condition is that the Welsh Ministers have consulted the following on a draft of the proposed regulations—

a

the principal councils that made the joint committee application,

b

local people in the principal councils' areas,

c

each of the councils for communities in the principal councils' areas,

d

the National Park authority for a National Park, any part of which is in the area of any of the principal councils,

e

the public services board or boards for the principal councils' areas,

f

every trade union which is recognised (within the meaning of the Trade Union and Labour Relations (Consolidation) Act 1992 (c. 52)) by one or more of the principal councils, and

g

such other persons as the Welsh Ministers consider appropriate.

4

The third condition is that the principal councils that made the joint committee application have each given consent in writing to the regulations being made.