Local Government and Elections (Wales) Act 2021

4 Duty to promote awareness and provide assistance

(1) A principal council must—

(a) promote awareness among relevant young people of the arrangements for registration as local government electors that apply to them;

(b) take the steps the council considers necessary to help relevant young people register as local government electors.

(2) In this section “relevant young people” means—

(a) persons resident in the principal council’s area who have attained the age of 14, but are under the age of 18;

(b) persons of the same age who—

(i) are not resident in the area of the principal council, and

(ii) are looked after by the council;

(c) persons of the same age who—

(i) are not resident in the area of the principal council, and

(ii) are persons to whom the council has a duty to safeguard and promote their well-being under section 109 of the Social Services and Well-being (Wales) Act 2014 (anaw 4).

(3) In this section, a person is looked after if the person is a looked after child for the purposes of the Social Services and Well-being (Wales) Act 2014.