73Local government schemeU.K.
(1)The Welsh Ministers must make a scheme (“the local government scheme”) setting out how they propose, in the exercise of their functions, to sustain and promote local government in Wales.
(2)The Welsh Ministers—
(a)must keep the local government scheme under review, and
(b)may from time to time remake or revise it.
(3)In determining the provision to be included in the local government scheme, the Welsh Ministers must have regard to any advice which has been given, and to any representations which have been made, to them by the Partnership Council.
(4)The Welsh Ministers must publish the local government scheme when they make it and whenever they remake it; and, if they revise the scheme without remaking it, they must publish either the revisions or the scheme as revised (as they consider appropriate).
(5)If the Welsh Ministers publish a scheme or revisions under subsection (4) they must lay a copy of the scheme or revisions before the Assembly.
(6)After each financial year the Welsh Ministers must—
(a)publish a report of how the proposals set out in the local government scheme were implemented in that financial year, and
(b)lay a copy of the report before the Assembly.