The Corporate Joint Committees (Amendment of the Well-being of Future Generations (Wales) Act 2015) Regulations 2021

• Citation: S.I. 2021/1360 (W.)
• Sections: 2

Section 1 Title and commencement

(1) The title of these Regulations is the Corporate Joint Committees (Amendment of the Well-being of Future Generations (Wales) Act 2015) Regulations 2021.

(2) These Regulations come into force on 3 December 2021.

Section 2 Amendment of the Well-being of Future Generations (Wales) Act 2015

(1) The Well-being of Future Generations (Wales) Act 2015 is amended as follows.

(2) In section 6(1) (meaning of “ public body ”), after paragraph (b) insert—

(ba) a corporate joint committee;

(3) After section 8 (Welsh Ministers’ well-being objectives) insert—

Corporate joint committees’ well-being objectives

(8A)

(1) A corporate joint committee established on or before 1 January 2022 must set and publish its well-being objectives—

(a) no later than 1 April 2023, and

(b) at such subsequent times as it considers appropriate.

(2) A corporate joint committee established after 1 January 2022 must set and publish its well-being objectives—

(a) no later than 12 months after the date on which the corporate joint committee is established, and

(b) at such subsequent times as it considers appropriate.

(3) If the well-being goals are amended, a corporate joint committee must review its well-being objectives.

(4) If, on a review under subsection (3), a corporate joint committee determines that one or more of its well-being objectives are no longer appropriate, it must revise the objective or objectives concerned.

(5) A corporate joint committee may at any other time review and revise its well-being objectives.

(6) Where a corporate joint committee revises its well-being objectives under subsection (4) or (5), it must publish them as soon as is reasonably practicable.

(7) In setting or revising its wellbeing objectives, a corporate joint committee must take into account the Commissioner’s report under section 23.

(4) In section 9(1) (other public bodies’ well-being objectives), after “the Welsh Ministers” insert “or a corporate joint committee” .

(5) In section 55(1) (interpretation), at the appropriate place insert—

“ corporate joint committee ” (“ cyd-bwyllgor corfforedig ”) means a corporate joint committee established by regulations made under Part 5 of the Local Government and Elections (Wales) Act 2021;