Local Government and Elections (Wales) Act 2021

Facilitating restructuring

135 Duties of restructuring councils to facilitate transfer

(1) A restructuring council must, for the purposes of the restructuring, co-operate with the Welsh Ministers, the other restructuring council or councils and any other person exercising functions in relation to the restructuring.

(2) A restructuring council whose area is to be abolished must take all reasonable steps to—

(a) facilitate the economic, effective and efficient transfer of its functions, staff, property, rights and liabilities to the other restructuring councils and any new principal councils, and

(b) ensure that the other restructuring councils and any new principal councils, and their staff, are in a position to perform their functions effectively.

(3) A restructuring council other than one whose area is to be abolished must take all reasonable steps to—

(a) facilitate the economic, effective and efficient transfer to it of the functions, staff, property, rights and liabilities of the council under consideration, and

(b) ensure that it and its staff are in a position to perform their functions effectively.

(4) The Welsh Ministers may direct a restructuring council to take, or not to take, any action the Welsh Ministers consider appropriate for the purpose of discharging the council’s duty under this section.