Commentary on Sections Section 156 – Power to direct exercise of other social services functions
409.Section 156 enables a direction issued under section 154 or 155 to relate to other social services functions in addition to those to which the grounds for intervention relate, where the Welsh Ministers have determined that it is expedient to do so. Subsection (2) contains an example of the matters to which the Welsh Ministers may have regard in deciding whether a direction should apply to additional social services functions.