Schedule 1: Minor and Consequential Amendments Relating to Part 3
37.Schedule 1 is introduced by sections 11 and 12.
38.This Schedule makes minor and consequential amendments relating to both the change of short title of the 2013 Act and the change of name of the Local Democracy and Boundary Commission for Wales to Democracy and Boundary Commission Cymru.
Section 13 - Number of members of the Commission
39.Section 13 increases the maximum number of members of the Commission from five to nine (including the chair and deputy chair). This is in recognition of the expected increase in the workload of the Commission) in consequence of its expanded functions.
Section 14 - Persons who may not be members or chief executive of the Commission
40.Section 14 expands the lists of persons who may not be members of the Commission or chief executive of the Commission, with a view to ensuring impartiality when exercising its Senedd constituency boundary review functions.
Section 15 - Quorum for meetings of the Commission
41.Section 15 makes provision for a regulation-making power enabling the Welsh Ministers to change the quorum for meetings of the Commission from the current statutory requirement of three. This power permits an increase or decrease in the quorum number, provided that any decrease does not change the quorum to a number lower than three. Regulations made under this power are subject to the affirmative procedure.
Section 16 - Assistant commissioners
42.Section 16 provides that the Commission may appoint one or more assistant commissioners to whom it may delegate functions in accordance with section 13 of the 2013 Act. This section also makes changes to the list of persons who may not be assistant commissioners, to align with the amendments made by section 14 to those who may not be members of the Commission under the Act. This section also provides that assistant commissioners are disqualified from being a Member of the Senedd or a candidate to be a Member of the Senedd (which was, and remains, the case for members of the Commission and the chief executive of the Commission).
