PART 7 Records, documents and notices etc.

Service of notices to a corporate joint committee

29.  In section 231 of the 1972 Act (service of notices on local authorities)—

(a) in subsection (4), after “includes” insert “a corporate joint committee,”;

(b) after that subsection insert—

“(5) In the application of subsection (1) to a corporate joint committee—

(a) references to the chairman are to be read as references to the chairperson of the corporate joint committee, and

(b) references to the principal office are to be read as references to—

(i) the principal office of the corporate joint committee, or

(ii) a principal office of a local authority for a county or county borough in Wales which is within the area specified as the corporate joint committee’s area in regulations under Part 5 of the Local Government and Elections (Wales) Act 2021 establishing the corporate joint committee.”