{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-and-elections-wales-act-2021/section-106",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-and-elections-wales-act-2021/section-106.json",
  "legislation": "asc/2021/1",
  "legislation_title": "Local Government and Elections (Wales) Act 2021",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-and-elections-wales-act-2021",
  "path": "section/106",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "106",
  "heading": "Direction to take or not to take etc. a specified step",
  "text": "(1) The Welsh Ministers may direct a principal council to—\n(a) take a specified step (and the direction may specify a deadline by which the step must be taken);\n(b) not take a specified step;\n(c) cease taking a specified step (and the direction may specify a deadline by which the council must cease taking the step).\n(2) The steps which a direction may require a council to take include entering into a contract or other agreement or arrangement—\n(a) with a specified person;\n(b) with a person of a specified description;\n(c) for specified purposes;\n(d) on specified terms and conditions.\n(3) In this section “specified” means specified in the direction.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 106 in force at 1.4.2021 by S.I. 2021/297, art. 2(b)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/asc/2021/1/section/106",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:17:57.648401+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."
}