59 Existing joint boards and committees and port health districts
Local Government (Wales) Act 1994 (1994 c 19) | Legislation

59  Existing joint boards and committees and port health districts

(1)     Where an existing joint board was constituted by or under any enactment for exercising functions for any area (including any united district), the board shall continue in existence on and after 1st April 1996 and to exercise for that area the same functions as before that date (to the exclusion of new principal councils).

(2)     In subsection (1)—

“joint board” means a joint board every constituent member of which is a local authority in Wales; and

“area” does not include a port health district.

(3)     Subsection (1) does not apply to a joint board constituted for an area which on 1st April 1996 will be wholly within the area of a single new principal council if the board was constituted for the purpose of exercising functions which on and after that date would (apart from the existence of the board) be exercisable by that council.

(4)     Subsection (3) applies whether or not the board has additional functions which, apart from this section, would not be exercisable by the new principal council.

(5)     In a case to which subsection (3) applies—

(a)     the functions of the board shall on

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