Legislation – Elections and Elected Bodies (Wales) Act 2024
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PART 1ELECTORAL ADMINISTRATION AND REGISTRATION
CHAPTER 4ACCESSIBILITY AND DIVERSITY: WELSH ELECTIONS
Candidate survey: local government elections
25Survey of councillors and unsuccessful candidates in local elections
(1)
The Local Government (Wales) Measure 2011 (nawm 4) is amended as follows.
(2)
In section 1 (duty to conduct a survey)—
(a)
in subsection (1), for “regulations” substitute “a direction”
;
(b)
“(3)
The Welsh Ministers may give a direction to local authorities that—
(a)
specifies the questions that must be asked in a survey;
(b)
specifies requirements about—
(i)
the form of the survey;
(ii)
how the survey is to be conducted;
(iii)
the collation of information from the survey.”;
(c)
in subsection (3A), for “answer the prescribed questions” substitute “respond to the survey”
;
(d)
“(3B)
A local authority may include questions in a survey, or arrange for the inclusion of questions in a survey, in addition to the questions required by a direction of the Welsh Ministers under this section.”;
(e)
in subsection (4), for “prescribed” substitute “specified in a direction”
.
(3)
In section 2 (completion of a survey and publication of information), in subsection (2), for “any prescribed form or manner” substitute “in such form or manner as the Welsh Ministers may direct”
.
(4)
“3APublication of directions about surveys
The Welsh Ministers must publish any direction given under section 1(3) or 2(2).”