PART 3

DEMOCRACY AND BOUNDARY COMMISSION CYMRU

Assistant commissioners
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1
In section 11 of the 2013 Act (assistant commissioners to whom functions relating to local government may be delegated)—
a
for subsection (1) substitute—
1
The Commission may appoint one or more persons (to be known as an “assistant commissioner) to whom the Commission may delegate functions in accordance with section 13(1).
;
b
in subsection (2)—
i
for “But the Commission may not appoint a person who is” substitute “An assistant commissioner may not be”;
ii
for paragraph‍ (a) substitute‍—
a
a member of a UK legislature;
;
iii
for paragraph (b) substitute—
ba
a‍ person engaged by a member of‍ a UK legislature, under a contract of service or a contract for services, in connection with the carrying out of the member’s functions;
bb
a person engaged by a registered political party under a contract of service or a contract for services;
bc
a special adviser‍;
.
2
In section 13(1) of that Act (delegation), for “an assistant commissioner” substitute “one or more assistant commissioners”.
3
In the table in Part 2 of Schedule 1A to the 2006 Act (offices that disqualify the holder from being a Member of the Senedd or a candidate in an election to be a Member of the Senedd), after the entry for “Comptroller and Auditor General or Rheolwr ac Archwilydd Cyffredinol” insert—
‍Democracy and Boundary Commission Cymru or Comisiwn Democratiaeth a Ffiniau Cymru | The members, assistant commissioners and chief executive of the Commission
.