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<Title><Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/anaw/2020/1" id="c00001" Class="WelshNationalAssemblyAct" Year="2020" Number="0001">Senedd and Elections (Wales) Act 2020</Citation></Title>
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<DateText>15 January 2020</DateText>
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<Title><CitationSubRef id="c00249" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/anaw/2020/1/section/38" CitationRef="c00001" SectionRef="section-38">Section 38</CitationSubRef> – Report on extension of right to vote and change to qualification for membership of the Senedd</Title>
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<Text><CitationSubRef id="c00251" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/anaw/2020/1/section/38" CitationRef="c00001" SectionRef="section-38">Section 38</CitationSubRef> requires the Welsh Ministers to prepare, publish and lay before the Senedd a report on the operation of the provisions in the Act that:</Text>
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<Text>extend the right to vote in Senedd elections to persons who are aged 16 or 17;</Text>
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<Text>extend the right to vote in Senedd elections to persons who are qualifying foreign citizens;</Text>
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<Text>allow qualifying foreign citizens to be Members of the Senedd, and</Text>
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<Text>disqualify members of county and county borough councils in Wales from being Members of the Senedd.</Text>
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<Text>The report must be prepared and published within six months of the end of the reporting period.</Text>
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<Text>The reporting period is the period of five years from the day of the next Senedd general election which takes place on or after 5 April 2021. The next Senedd general election is currently scheduled for May 2021.</Text>
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