{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/corporate-joint-committees-general-wales-regulations-2022/regulation-45",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/corporate-joint-committees-general-wales-regulations-2022/regulation-45.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/45",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "45",
  "heading": "Research and the collection of information",
  "text": "For section 141(3) of the 1972 Act (research and collection of information) substitute—\n“(3) This section has effect—\n(a) in relation to a principal council in Wales—\n(i) as if any reference to a council were a reference to the principal council, and\n(ii) as if any reference to a county were a reference to the principal area;\n(b) in relation to a corporate joint committee—\n(i) as if any reference to a council were a reference to the corporate joint committee,\n(ii) as if any reference to a county were 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, and\n(iii) as if any reference to any other local authority in the county were a reference to any local authority in the corporate joint committee’s area.”",
  "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/45",
    "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."
}