Senedd Cymru (Member Accountability and Elections) Act 2026 / Deddf Senedd Cymru (Atebolrwydd Aelodau ac Etholiadau) 2026
Senedd Cymru (Member Accountability and Elections) Act 2026 / Deddf Senedd Cymru (Atebolrwydd Aelodau ac Etholiadau) 2026 (2026 c. 9)
- Senedd Cymru (Member Accountability and Elections) Act 2026 / Deddf Senedd Cymru (Atebolrwydd Aelodau ac Etholiadau) 2026 (2026 c. 9)
- PART 1 RECALL OF MEMBERS OF THE SENEDD
- Introduction
- 1 Overview
- Initiating a recall poll
- 2 How a Member of the Senedd becomes subject to a recall poll
- 3 Trigger event A: meaning of key terms
- 4 Trigger event A: courts to notify the Presiding Officer
- 5 Trigger event B: recall guidance
- Date of recall poll and notice
- 6 Presiding Officer’s duty to fix date for recall poll and give notice of trigger event
- 7 Public notice of recall poll
- Early termination of recall poll
- 8 Early termination of a recall poll
- Franchise
- 9 Entitlement to vote in a recall poll
- Conduct of recall poll
- 10 Recall polls to be conducted by ballot
- 11 Regulations about recall polls
- Outcome of recall poll
- 12 Outcome of a recall poll
- 13 Effect of declaration that a Member of the Senedd is removed
- 14 Validity of recall poll not affected by invalidity in Senedd proceedings
- Functions of officers
- 15 Functions of constituency returning officers
- General
- 16 Interpretation of Part 1
- 17 Consequential provision relating to Part 1
- PART 2 STANDARDS OF CONDUCT OF MEMBERS OF THE SENEDD
- Standards of Conduct
- 18 Standards of Conduct Committee
- 19 Report on applying code of conduct to conduct while a candidate in an election
- Senedd Commissioner for Standards
- 20 Power of the Senedd Commissioner for Standards to investigate on own initiative
- 21 Senedd Commissioner for Standards: eligibility
- 22 Senedd Commissioner for Standards: investigations
- General
- 23 Minor and consequential provision relating to Part 2
- PART 3 CONDUCT OF SENEDD CYMRU ELECTIONS
- 24 Power of the Welsh Ministers to make provision about Senedd elections etc.
- PART 4 GENERAL
- 25 Power to make consequential and transitional provision etc
- 26 Coming into force
- 27 Short title
- SCHEDULE MINOR AND CONSEQUENTIAL PROVISION
- PART 1 CONSEQUENTIAL PROVISION RELATING TO PART 1
- Representation of the People Act 1983 (c. 2)
- Political Parties, Elections and Referendums Act 2000 (c. 41)
- Government of Wales Act 2006 (c. 32)
- Democracy and Boundary Commission Cymru etc. Act 2013 (anaw 4)
- PART 2 MINOR AND CONSEQUENTIAL PROVISION RELATING TO PART 2
- The National Assembly for Wales Commissioner for Standards Measure 2009 (nawm 4)
- Welsh Language (Wales) Measure 2011 (nawm 1)
- Welsh Language Standards (No. 2) Regulations 2016
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