{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/elections-and-elected-bodies-wales-act-2024/section-25",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/elections-and-elected-bodies-wales-act-2024/section-25.json",
  "legislation": "asc/2024/5",
  "legislation_title": "Elections and Elected Bodies (Wales) Act 2024",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/elections-and-elected-bodies-wales-act-2024",
  "path": "section/25",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "25",
  "heading": "Survey of councillors and unsuccessful candidates in local elections",
  "text": "(1) The Local Government (Wales) Measure 2011 (nawm 4) is amended as follows.\n(2) In section 1 (duty to conduct a survey)—\n(a) in subsection (1), for “regulations” substitute “a direction”;\n(b) for subsection (3) substitute—\n“(3) The Welsh Ministers may give a direction to local authorities that—\n(a) specifies the questions that must be asked in a survey;\n(b) specifies requirements about—\n(i) the form of the survey;\n(ii) how the survey is to be conducted;\n(iii) the collation of information from the survey.”;\n(c) in subsection (3A), for “answer the prescribed questions” substitute “respond to the survey”;\n(d) after subsection (3A), insert—\n“(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.”;\n(e) in subsection (4), for “prescribed” substitute “specified in a direction”.\n(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”.\n(4) After section 3 (guidance about surveys), insert—\n“Publication of directions about surveys\n3A The Welsh Ministers must publish any direction given under section 1(3) or 2(2).”",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 25 in force at 9.11.2024, see s. 72(2)(b)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/asc/2024/5/section/25",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:17:46.347354+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}