{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/elections-and-elected-bodies-wales-act-2024/section-34",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/elections-and-elected-bodies-wales-act-2024/section-34.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/34",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "34",
  "heading": "Codes of practice on expenses",
  "text": "(1) In paragraph 14A of Schedule 4A to the 1983 Act (election expenses: Electoral Commission guidance)—\n(a) in sub-paragraph (1), after paragraph (b) insert—\n“(c) guidance relating to the application of Part 2 of this Act in relation to expenses incurred for the purposes of a candidate’s election (whether or not election expenses).”;\n(b) in sub-paragraph (7)(b), after “order” insert “made by statutory instrument”.\n(2) In section 156 of the 2000 Act (orders and regulations)—\n(a) in subsection (1) after “State” insert “or the Welsh Ministers”;\n(b) in subsection (2)—\n(i) the words from “a statutory instrument” to the end become paragraph (a);\n(ii) after “Parliament” insert—\n“(b) a statutory instrument containing any order or regulations made under this Act by the Welsh Ministers shall be subject to annulment in pursuance of a resolution of Senedd Cymru.”;\n(c) in subsection (3), in paragraph (aa), omit “, other than an order of the Welsh Ministers”;\n(d) in subsection (4), after “Parliament” insert “(in the case of an order made by the Secretary of State) or (in the case of an order made by the Welsh Ministers) a draft of the statutory instrument containing the order has been laid before, and approved by a resolution of, Senedd Cymru”;\n(e) in subsection (4A) after “Parliament” insert “(in the case of an order made by the Secretary of State) or (in the case of an order made by the Welsh Ministers) a draft of the statutory instrument containing the order has been laid before, and approved by a resolution of, Senedd Cymru”;\n(f) in subsection (5)—\n(i) in the opening words, after “State” insert “, the Welsh Ministers,”;\n(ii) in paragraph (a), after “State” insert “, the Welsh Ministers,”.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 34 not in force at Royal Assent, see s. 72(4)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I2",
      "text": "S. 34 in force at 1.1.2025 by S.I. 2024/1337, art. 2(i)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/asc/2024/5/section/34",
    "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."
}