The Local Government (Relevant Authorities) (Power to Trade) (Wales) Order 2022

Section 95 (power to trade in function-related activities through a company) of the Local Government Act 2003 (“the Act”) confers a power on the Welsh Ministers, by order, to authorise relevant authorities to do for a commercial purpose anything which they are authorised to do for the purpose of carrying on any of their ordinary functions (“the power to trade”) and to make further provision in relation to a relevant authority’s exercise of the power to trade. Section 96 of the Act confers a power on the Welsh Ministers to impose conditions on the exercise of the power to trade.