Version Superseded: 03/05/2007
Point in time view as at 01/09/2006. This version of this provision has been superseded.
Government of Wales Act 1998, Section 61 is up to date with all changes known to be in force on or before 02 March 2025. There are changes that may be brought into force at a future date. Changes that have been made appear in the content and are referenced with annotations.
(1)The Assembly shall establish a committee for North Wales to provide advice to the Assembly about matters affecting North Wales.
(2)The Assembly shall also establish a committee for each of the other regions of Wales to provide advice to the Assembly about matters affecting the region.
(3)The standing orders must specify the areas which are to constitute—
(a)North Wales, and
(b)the other regions of Wales,
for the purposes of this section.
(4)The committees established under this section shall be known by such titles as the standing orders may provide (but are referred to in this Act as regional committees).
(5)The members of a regional committee shall be—
(a)the Assembly members returned for an Assembly constituency which is wholly or partly included in the region about which the committee is to provide advice, and
(b)such of the Assembly members returned for an Assembly electoral region which is wholly or partly included in that region as may be elected as members of the committee by the Assembly.
(6)Each regional committee shall elect one of the members of the committee to chair it.
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