PART 4LOCAL AUTHORITY EXECUTIVES, MEMBERS, OFFICERS AND COMMITTEES

Overview and scrutiny committees

66Power to require authorities to appoint joint overview and scrutiny committees

(1)

Section 58 of the 2011 Measure (joint overview and scrutiny committees) is amended as follows.

(2)

In subsection (1), after “authorities may” insert “or must”.

(3)

In subsection (3), for paragraph (a) substitute—

“(a)

provision about the circumstances in which arrangements may be made;

(aa)

provision prescribing circumstances in which arrangements must be made;

(ab)

provision for arrangements to be made subject to prescribed conditions or limitations;”.

(4)

In subsection (4)—

(a)

omit “, in exercising or deciding whether to exercise any function conferred on it by or under this section,”;

(b)

after “Welsh Ministers” insert “in relation to the exercise of any function it has under or by virtue of this section”.