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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-wales-measure-2011/section-16",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-wales-measure-2011/section-16.json",
  "legislation": "mwa/2011/4",
  "legislation_title": "Local Government (Wales) Measure 2011",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-wales-measure-2011",
  "path": "section/16",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "16",
  "heading": "Discharging functions",
  "text": "(1) A democratic services committee may not exercise any functions other than its functions under this Chapter.\n(2) In exercising, or deciding whether to exercise any of its functions, a democratic services committee, or a sub-committee of such a committee, must have regard to guidance given by the Welsh Ministers.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 16 in force at 30.4.2012 by S.I. 2012/1187, art. 2(1)(b)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/mwa/2011/4/section/16",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:18:39.148280+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."
}