Article 45
1. The Representation of the People Act 1983(1).
Article 45(1) does not operate to transfer the function of the Lord Chancellor under section 161 (justice of the peace) to the Welsh Ministers.
2. The Representation of the People Act 2000(2).
3. Section 44 of the Local Government Act 2000 (power to make provision about elections)(3).
4. The Political Parties, Elections and Referendums Act 2000(4).
(a)Section 6F(5) (code of practice on attendance of observers at elections etc) applies in relation to a code on which the Electoral Commission consults the Welsh Ministers under section 6F(4) as if the reference to each House of Parliament were a reference to the Assembly;
(b)Section 155 (power to vary specified sums or percentages) has effect in relation to the exercise of the function under subsection (1) of that section by the Welsh Ministers as if after subsection (4B) there were inserted—
“(4C) In each National Assembly for Wales, other than one that is dissolved less than two years after the date of its first sitting, the Welsh Ministers must either make an order in pursuance of subsection (2)(a), or lay before the Assembly a statement setting out the Welsh Ministers’ reasons for not doing so.”.
5. The Electoral Administration Act 2006(5).
6. The Political Parties and Elections Act 2009(6).
7. The Electoral Registration and Administration Act 2013(7).
8. Regulation 91(5) of the Representation of the People (England and Wales) Regulations 2001 (8).
9. The National Assembly for Wales (Representation of the People) Order 2007(9) (“the 2007 Order”).
Article 45(1) of this Order does not operate to transfer the function of the Lord Chancellor under article 113 of the 2007 Order (justice of the peace) to the Welsh Ministers.
2000 c. 22; section 44 was amended by section 158(1) of, and paragraph 18(1) and (2) of Schedule 21 to, the Political Parties, Elections and Referendums Act 2000 (c. 41), article 10 of, and paragraph 8(1) and (3) of Part 1 of Schedule 2 to, S.I. 2015/1376 and article 13 of, and paragraph 13(c) of Part 1 of Schedule 2 to, S.I. 2016/997.
S.I. 2001/341; regulation 91(5) was amended by regulation 12(1) and (3) of S.I. 2006/752.