PART 5 E+W COLLABORATIVE WORKING BY PRINCIPAL COUNCILS

CHAPTER 3 E+W ESTABLISHING CORPORATE JOINT COMMITTEES where request has been made

Applications to establish a corporate joint committee E+W

70 Application by principal councils to establish a corporate joint committee E+W

(1) Any two or more principal councils may jointly make an application (a “joint committee application”) to the Welsh Ministers, asking them to consider making regulations under section 72 establishing a corporate joint committee to exercise—

(a) a function of those councils;

(b) the economic well-being function,

in relation to the principal areas of those councils.

(2) If, following receipt of a joint committee application, the Welsh Ministers decide not to make regulations under section 72, they must notify the principal councils that made the application.