Local Government and Elections (Wales) Act 2021

78 Application by principal councils to amend or revoke joint committee regulations

(1) The principal councils for the principal areas in a corporate joint committee’s area may jointly make an application to the Welsh Ministers, asking them to consider making regulations under section 80 to amend or revoke the joint committee regulations which established the corporate joint committee.

(2) But an application under this section may not ask the Welsh Ministers to consider—

(a) amending joint committee regulations to specify a function unless it is—

(i) a function of the councils making the application;

(ii) the economic well-being function;

(b) amending regulations made under section 74 (joint committee regulations where no request has been made) so as to—

(i) omit or modify a function which relates to improving education or transport;

(ii) omit the function of preparing a strategic development plan;

(iii) omit the economic well-being function or impose, modify or omit a prohibition, restriction or other limitation on the exercise of that function;

(c) revoking regulations made under section 74.

(3) An application under this section asking the Welsh Ministers to consider amending joint committee regulations so as to specify a principal area (so that the corporate joint committee will exercise a function in relation to that area) may not be made unless the principal council for that area is one of the applicants.