Local Government and Elections (Wales) Act 2021

131 Restructuring regulations

Restructuring regulations are regulations which provide for the abolition of the principal area of a council under consideration on a date specified in the regulations (“the transfer date”), and either or both of the following—

(a) for a part or parts of the principal area being abolished to become, on the transfer date, part of another existing principal area or parts of other existing principal areas;

(b) for the constitution of a new principal area on the transfer date by—

(i) abolishing the principal area of one or more other principal councils (as well as the area of the council under consideration), and

(ii) merging, to create a new principal area, all or part of the area of the council under consideration with the area of the other principal council or councils (whether or not the other council or councils are also councils under consideration).