{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-and-elections-wales-act-2021/section-140",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-and-elections-wales-act-2021/section-140.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/140",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "140",
  "heading": "Requirement on principal councils to provide information etc. to the Welsh Ministers",
  "text": "(1) The Welsh Ministers may direct a principal council (“council A”) to provide them with any information or documents they consider appropriate—\n(a) for the purposes of considering whether to transfer the functions of council A to another principal council (“council B”) or to a new principal council,\n(b) for the purposes of giving effect to such a transfer, or\n(c) otherwise in connection with such a transfer.\n(2) The Welsh Ministers may also direct council B to provide the Welsh Ministers with any information or documents which they consider appropriate as mentioned in subsection (1)(a), (b) or (c).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 140(1)(a) in force at 21.1.2021 for specified purposes, see s. 175(1)(f)(2)(e)(i)(7)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I2",
      "text": "S. 140(1)(b)(c) in force at 21.1.2021, see s. 175(1)(f)(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I3",
      "text": "S. 140(1)(a) in force at 1.4.2021 in so far as not already in force by S.I. 2021/297, art. 2(d)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I4",
      "text": "S. 140(2) in force at 1.4.2021 by S.I. 2021/297, art. 2(d)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/asc/2021/1/section/140",
    "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."
}