Explanatory note

Part II of the Local Government Act 2000 provides for the discharge of a local authority’s functions by an executive of an authority (which must take one of the forms specified in section 11(2) to (5) of the Act) unless those functions are not to be the responsibility of the authority’s executive.

The National Assembly for Wales made the Local Authorities Executive Arrangements (Functions and Responsibilities) (Wales) Regulations 2001 (“the 2001 Regulations”) which specified functions that are not to be the responsibility of an authority’s executive or are to be the responsibility of such an executive only to a limited extent or only in specified circumstances. These regulations (in regulation 2) make changes to the 2001 Regulations in Schedule 1 by adding to the list of functions not to be the responsibility of an authority’s executive, by adding to the list of functions in Schedule 2 which may (but need not) be the responsibility of an authority’s executive and amending Schedule 3 by adding to functions not to be the sole responsibility of an authority’s executive.