The joint council will have a consultative role, rather than collective bargaining role, but will draft agreements for recognition and local bargaining at some depots over the next three months.

Otherwise, it was to have a purely consultative role.

Mayors and municipal councils, which fill a local consultative role, are elected.

Its powers were highly restricted: it could not take decisions and exercised a purely consultative role alongside the sovereign.

He retired in 1982, but retained a consultative role until 1988.