Regulation 25 Records
A corporate joint committee must—
make arrangements for the proper care, preservation and management of the corporate joint committee’s records, and
make and maintain a scheme setting out those arrangements (a “records scheme”).
A corporate joint committee must keep its records scheme under review and may revise the scheme.
A corporate joint committee must consult the Welsh Ministers before making, or revising, a records scheme.
Where a corporate joint committee arranges under regulation 13 of the Corporate Joint Committees (General) (No. 2) (Wales) Regulations 2021f1 (arrangements for the discharge of functions) for any of its functions relating to the proper care, preservation and management of its records to be discharged by—
another corporate joint committee, or
a county or county borough council in Wales,
the corporate joint committee must set out those arrangements in its records scheme.
Where a corporate joint committee’s records relate to the area, or part of the area, of another corporate joint committee, that other corporate joint committee may inspect those records, and take copies of them, free of charge.
For the purposes of this regulation, a corporate joint committee’s records are records—
in any form, and any medium, capable of conveying information, and
which belong to, or are in the custody of, the corporate joint committee.