{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-and-elections-wales-act-2021/section-149",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-and-elections-wales-act-2021/section-149.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/149",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "149",
  "heading": "Terms used in this Part",
  "text": "In this Part (including Schedule 1)—\n“abolition request” (“cais i ddiddymu”) has the meaning given in section 130(1);\n“council under consideration” (“cyngor sydd o dan ystyriaeth”) has the meaning given by section 129(4)(a);\n“documents” (“dogfennau”) includes information recorded in any form (other than in section 148);\n“form of executive” (“ffurf y weithrediaeth”) is to be interpreted in accordance with section 11 of the 2000 Act;\n“merger application” (“cais i uno”) has the meaning given in section 121(1);\n“merger regulations” (“rheoliadau uno”) has the meaning given in section 124(2);\n“merging council” (“cyngor sy'n uno”) means a principal council that has made a merger application and whose area is to be merged into a new principal area;\n“principal area” (“prif ardal”) means—\n(a)a county in Wales;\n(b)a county borough (in Wales);\n“restructuring council” (“cyngor sy'n cael ei ailstrwythuro”) means a principal council that has been given notice as described in section 129(6) of the Welsh Ministers' proposals to make restructuring regulations in relation to it;\n“restructuring regulations” (“rheoliadau ailstrwythuro”) has the meaning given in section 131;\n“shadow council” (“cyngor cysgodol”) (including “elected shadow council” and “designated shadow council”) means a council established as a shadow council in accordance with provision included in—\n(a)merger regulations under section 125;\n(b)restructuring regulations under section 133;\n“transfer date” (“dyddiad trosglwyddo”)—\n(a)in relation to merger regulations, has the meaning given in section 124(1);\n(b)in relation to restructuring regulations, has the meaning given in section 131.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 149 in force at 21.1.2021 for specified purposes, see s. 175(1)(f)(2)(i)(i)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I2",
      "text": "S. 149 in force at 1.4.2021 in so far as not already in force 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/149",
    "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."
}