Local Government and Elections (Wales) Act 2021

74 Joint committee regulations where no request has been made

(1) The Welsh Ministers may by regulations establish a body corporate (to be known as a corporate joint committee) to exercise, in relation to the principal areas specified in the regulations (“the relevant areas”), a function specified in the regulations.

(2) But the Welsh Ministers may make regulations under this section only if the conditions set out in section 75 are satisfied.

(3) Regulations under this section may specify only—

(a) a function of the principal councils for the relevant areas that relates to—

(i) improving education;

(ii) transport;

(b) the function of preparing a strategic development plan (as to which, see subsection (4));

(c) the economic well-being function.

(4) Where the function of preparing a strategic development plan is specified in joint committee regulations, Part 6 of the Planning and Compulsory Purchase Act 2004 (c. 5) applies to the corporate joint committee.

(5) Regulations under this section which specify a function of a principal council must make provision so that the function is either—

(a) exercisable by the corporate joint committee instead of by the principal councils for the relevant areas, or

(b) exercisable concurrently by the corporate joint committee and those principal councils.

(6) A function of a principal council may be specified in regulations under this section by reference to a particular activity or activities.