{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/elections-and-elected-bodies-wales-act-2024/section-48",
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  "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/48",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "48",
  "heading": "Deadline for completion of reviews",
  "text": "(1) The 2013 Act is amended as follows.\n(2) After section 36A (proposals for names of electoral wards: review reports) (inserted by section 44) insert—\n“Deadline for completion of reviews\n36B (1) Before conducting a review under this Part, the Commission or, as the case may be, a principal council must publish a statement specifying the day on which the review begins.\n(2) The Commission must, in relation to a review it conducts under section 23, 27 or 29, use its best endeavours to publish its further report on the review in accordance with section 36(5)(b) before the end of a period of 12 months beginning with the day specified under subsection (1).\n(3) The Commission must, in relation to a review it conducts under section 28, use its best endeavours to publish its further report on the review in accordance with section 36(5)(b) before the end of a period of 18 months beginning with the day specified under subsection (1).\n(4) The Commission must, in relation to a review it conducts under section 2‍6 or 32, use its best endeavours to publish its further report on the review in accordance with section 36(5)(b) before the end of a period of 24 months beginning with the day specified under subsection (1).\n(5) A principal council must, in relation to a review it conducts under section 25 or 31, use its best endeavours to publish its further report on the review in accordance with section 36(5)(b) before the end of a period of 24 months beginning with the day specified under subsection (1).\n(6) If a reviewing body fails to comply with a duty imposed by this section in relation to a review, the body’s failure to comply does not affect the validity of the review for the purposes of this Act.”",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 48 in force at 9.11.2024, see s. 72(2)(a)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/asc/2024/5/section/48",
    "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."
}