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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/general-power-of-competence-commercial-purpose-conditions-wales-regulations-2021/note",
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  "legislation": "wsi/2021/1166",
  "legislation_title": "The General Power of Competence (Commercial Purpose) (Conditions) (Wales) Regulations 2021",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/general-power-of-competence-commercial-purpose-conditions-wales-regulations-2021",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
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  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nSection 24 of the Local Government and Elections (Wales) Act 2021 (“the Act”) confers a general power of competence on principal councils and eligible community councils. In particular, the general power of competence confers on those authorities a power to do certain things for a commercial purpose.\nThe power to do things for a commercial purpose is subject to conditions set out in section 27 of the Act. Under section 27(2), the exercise of the general power for a commercial purpose must be done through a company.\nSection 28(4) of the Act provides a power for the Welsh Ministers to provide, by regulations, for the exercise of the general power to be subject to additional conditions.\nRegulation 2 prescribes additional conditions that a principal council must meet before exercising the general power of competence to do things for a commercial purpose.\nRegulation 3 requires a principal council to publish any business case approved in accordance with regulation 2(1)(b) as soon as reasonably practicable.\nRegulation 4 requires a principal council to recover any costs incurred by it in anything it supplies to a company through which the general power is exercised for a commercial purpose, from that company.\nThe Welsh Ministers’ Code of Practice on the carrying out of Regulatory Impact Assessments was considered in relation to these Regulations. As a result, a regulatory impact assessment has been prepared as to the likely costs and benefits of complying with these Regulations. A copy can be obtained from the Local Government Democracy Division, Welsh Government, Cathays Park, Cardiff, CF10 3NQ.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2021/1166/note",
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  "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."
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