Local Government and Elections (Wales) Act 2021

Transition committees for merging councils or restructuring councils: further provision

7 (1) The Welsh Ministers may direct a transition committee to exercise its functions in accordance with the direction.

(2) Neither a governance and audit committee nor an overview and scrutiny committee of a merging council or restructuring council may exercise any of its functions in relation to anything done by a transition committee; and for this purpose—

• “governance and audit committee” (“pwyllgor llywodraethu ac archwilio”) has the meaning given by section 81 of the 2011 Measure;

• “overview and scrutiny committee” (“pwyllgor trosolwg a chraffu”) has the meaning given by section 21(1) of the 2000 Act.

(3) In this Part of this Schedule—

(a) “transition committee” means a transition committee established in accordance with paragraph 1 or by virtue of paragraph 4;

(b) a reference to a merging council in relation to a transition committee is to a merging council by which the transition committee is established;

(c) a reference to a restructuring council in relation to a transition committee is to a restructuring council by which the transition committee is established.

(4) Until section 115 comes into force, the references in sub-paragraph (2) to a governance and audit committee are to be read as references to an audit committee.