{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-committees-and-political-groups-regulations-1990/regulation-16AA",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-committees-and-political-groups-regulations-1990/regulation-16AA.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1990/1553",
  "legislation_title": "The Local Government (Committees and Political Groups) Regulations 1990",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-committees-and-political-groups-regulations-1990",
  "path": "regulation/16AA",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "16AA",
  "heading": "Area committees and sub-committees in Wales",
  "text": "(1) Section 15 of the 1989 Act does not apply to any ordinary committee or advisory committee of an authority in Wales which is a county council or a county borough council, or to a sub-committee of any such ordinary or advisory committee, where—\n(a) the committee or sub-committee was established exclusively—\n(i) to discharge functions of the authority, or\n(ii) to advise the authority or any committee of the authority,\nin respect of part of the area of the authority;\n(b) that part consists of the whole of one or more electoral divisions of the authority;\n(c) all the members of the authority who are elected for that electoral division, or those electoral divisions, are entitled to be members of the committee or sub-committee;\n(d) no members of the authority, other than those mentioned in subparagraph (c), may be members of the committee or sub-committee; and\n(e) either or both of the conditions in paragraph (2) are satisfied in relation to that part.\n(2) Those conditions are—\n(a) that the area of that part does not exceed one-half of the total area of the authority;\n(b) that the population of that part, as estimated by the authority, does not exceed one-half of the total population of the area of the authority as so estimated.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Reg. 16AA inserted (W.) (1.5.2014) by The Local Government (Committees and Political Groups) (Amendment) (Wales) Regulations 2014 (S.I. 2014/476), regs. 1(1), 2(4)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1990/1553/regulation/16AA",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T15:11:04.151811+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."
}