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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-authorities-alternative-arrangements-wales-regulations-2007/regulation-17",
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  "legislation": "wsi/2007/397",
  "legislation_title": "The Local Authorities (Alternative Arrangements) (Wales) Regulations 2007",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-authorities-alternative-arrangements-wales-regulations-2007",
  "path": "regulation/17",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "17",
  "heading": "Members of joint committees",
  "text": "(1) Subject to paragraph (2) below, every person appointed to a joint committee in accordance with regulation 16 above by a relevant body must be a member of the local authority, and the political balance requirements do not apply to the appointment of such members.\n(2) Where —\n(a) the joint committee has functions in respect of part only of the area of one of the local authorities concerned;\n(b) those functions are the responsibility of the Board of that authority; and\n(c) the population of that part, as estimated by the authority, does not exceed fifteen percent of the total population of the area of the authority as so estimated,\nthe representatives of that authority on the joint committee may include any members of that authority who have been elected for electoral divisions or wards which are wholly or partly within that part of the authority’s area, and the political balance requirements are not to apply to the appointment of those members.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2007/397/regulation/17",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T00:01:44.800004+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."
}