Elections and Elected Bodies (Wales) Act 2024

PART 3 GENERAL PROVISION

69 Regulations: restrictions

(1) Regulations under this Act—

(a) may not include provision that would require the consent of the appropriate Minister under paragraph 8(1)(a) or (c), 10 or 11 of Schedule 7B to the Government of Wales Act 2006 (c. 32) if the provision were included in an Act of Senedd Cymru;

(b) may not include provision that would require consultation of the appropriate Minister under paragraph 11(2) of Schedule 7B to that Act if the provision were included in an Act of Senedd Cymru.

(2) In this section “appropriate Minister” has the meaning given by paragraph 8(5) of Schedule 7B to the Government of Wales Act 2006.

70 General interpretation

In this Act—

• “1983 Act”(“Deddf 1983”) means the Representation of the People Act 1983 (c. 2);

• ”2000 Act”(“Deddf 2000”) means the Political Parties, Elections and Referendums Act 2000 (c. 41);

• “2013 Act”(“Deddf 2013”) means the Democracy and Boundary Commission Cymru etc. Act 2013 (anaw 4);

• “principal council”(“prif gyngor”) means the council of a county or county borough in Wales.

71 Power to make consequential and transitional provision etc.

(1) If the Welsh Ministers consider it appropriate for the purposes of, in consequence of, or for giving full effect to any provision of this Act, they may by regulations make—

(a) supplementary, incidental or consequential provision;

(b) transitional or saving provision.

(2) Regulations under subsection (1) may amend, modify, repeal or revoke any enactment (including an enactment contained in this Act).

(3) The power to make regulations under this section is exercisable by statutory instrument.

(4) If regulations under subsection (1) amend, repeal or otherwise modify a provision of an Act of Parliament or an Act or Measure of Senedd Cymru, the instrument containing the regulations may not be made unless a draft of the instrument has been laid before and approved by a resolution of Senedd Cymru.

(5) A statutory instrument containing regulations under subsection (1) to which subsection (4) does not apply is subject to annulment in pursuance of a resolution of Senedd Cymru.

72 Coming into force

(1) The following provisions of this Act come into force on the day after the day on which this Act receives Royal Assent—

(a) Chapter 3 of Part 1 and Part 2 of Schedule 1 (Welsh elections piloting and reform);

(b) section 61 (disqualification from being a Member of the Senedd and a community councillor), but that section has effect in accordance with section 61(7);

(c) section 66 (Democracy and Boundary Commission Cymru: persons who may not be members etc.);

(d) this Part.

(2) The following provisions of this Act come into force at the end of the period of two months beginning with the day on which this Act receives Royal Assent—

(a) Chapter 1 of Part 2 (arrangements for local government);

(b) section 25 (survey of councillors and unsuccessful candidates in local elections);

(c) section 30 (guidance for political parties to promote diversity in persons seeking elected office);

(d) sections 62 and 63 (disqualification for corrupt or illegal practice).

(3) Section 65 comes into force on 6 May 2027.

(4) The other provisions of this Act come into force on a day appointed by the Welsh Ministers in an order made by statutory instrument, subject to subsection (5).

(5) The provisions of Chapter2 of Part1(electoral registration without applications), except paragraphs (c) and (d) of section 4(9), may not come into force unless—

(a) Welsh election pilot provision of the kind described in section 5(4) has been made in regulations under section 5(1),

(b) a report on the operation of the regulations has been sent to the Welsh Ministers under section 17(5)(a),

(c) the Welsh Ministers have laid the report before Senedd Cymru, and

(d) the regulations in force under section 53 of the 1983 Act that apply to registers of local government electors for areas in Wales do not require registration officers to prepare edited registers of local government electors or supply such registers or part of them to any person on payment of a fee, so far as requirements of that kind in regulations under section 53 are prohibited by virtue of paragraphs 10(3) and 10B(4) of Schedule 2 to that Act (as inserted by section 4(9)(c) and (d) of this Act).

(6) An order under subsection (4) may—

(a) appoint different days for different purposes;

(b) make transitory, transitional or saving provision in connection with the coming into force of a provision brought into force by the order.

73 Short title

The short title of this Act is the Elections and Elected Bodies (Wales) Act 2024.