Section 43 – Electoral review recommendations and decisions: duty to have regard to representations
111.Section 43 amends section 37 of the 2013 Act to clarify that the Welsh Ministers cannot implement any recommendation or decide to take no action on recommendations in relation to an electoral review until a minimum of six weeks have elapsed beginning with the day on which the Welsh Ministers receive the review recommendations. Also, when the Welsh Ministers are considering a final report of an electoral arrangements review, they must have regard to any representations made to them during the six week ‘representation’ period.
112.This section also makes similar amendments to sections 38 and 39 of the 2013 Act in relation to the functions exercised by the Commission in respect of reports on community boundary changes and functions exercised by county or county borough councils in respect of community electoral arrangements.
