{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/corporate-joint-committees-general-wales-regulations-2022/regulation-20",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/corporate-joint-committees-general-wales-regulations-2022/regulation-20.json",
  "legislation": "wsi/2022/372",
  "legislation_title": "The Corporate Joint Committees (General) (Wales) Regulations 2022",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/corporate-joint-committees-general-wales-regulations-2022",
  "path": "regulation/20",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "20",
  "heading": "Power to prosecute or defend legal proceedings",
  "text": "In section 222 of the 1972 Act (power of local authorities to prosecute or defend legal proceedings)—\n(a) in subsection (2), after “Common Council” insert “, a corporate joint committee”;\n(b) after that subsection insert—\n“(3) In the application of subsection (1) to a corporate joint committee, the reference to the corporate joint committee’s area is to be read as a reference to 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.”",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2022/372/regulation/20",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:07:26.384558+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}