{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-and-elections-wales-act-2021/section-66",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-and-elections-wales-act-2021/section-66.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/66",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "66",
  "heading": "Power to require authorities to appoint joint overview and scrutiny committees",
  "text": "(1) Section 58 of the 2011 Measure (joint overview and scrutiny committees) is amended as follows.\n(2) In subsection (1), after “authorities may” insert “ or must ”.\n(3) In subsection (3), for paragraph (a) substitute—\n“(a) provision about the circumstances in which arrangements may be made;\n(aa) provision prescribing circumstances in which arrangements must be made;\n(ab) provision for arrangements to be made subject to prescribed conditions or limitations;”.\n(4) In subsection (4)—\n(a) omit “, in exercising or deciding whether to exercise any function conferred on it by or under this section,”;\n(b) after “Welsh Ministers” insert “ in relation to the exercise of any function it has under or by virtue of this section ”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 66 in force at 5.5.2022 by S.I. 2021/231, art. 6(n)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/asc/2021/1/section/66",
    "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."
}