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4(1)An Order under section 12(1)—
(a)must specify the question to be included on the ballot paper at the referendum which it causes to be held, and
(b)may specify a statement to precede the question on that ballot paper.
(2)A question or statement specified under sub-paragraph (1) must be specified in both English and Welsh.
(3)The Secretary of State must, no later than the time at which paragraph (b) of section 104(4) of PPERA 2000 (report stating views as to intelligibility of referendum question expressed by Electoral Commission) is complied with, send to the First Minister a copy of the report laid before Parliament under that paragraph.
(4)As soon as practicable after the First Minister receives a copy of a report under sub-paragraph (3), the First Minister must lay a copy of the report before the Assembly.
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