{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/elections-and-elected-bodies-wales-act-2024/section-50",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/elections-and-elected-bodies-wales-act-2024/section-50.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/50",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "50",
  "heading": "Directions to pause reviews",
  "text": "(1) The 2013 Act is amended as follows.\n(2) In section 48 (directions and guidance relating to Part 3)—\n(a) in subsection (2), after paragraph (e) insert—\n“(f) to pause a review it conducts under this Part for a period specified in the direction or until a further direction is given.”;\n(b) in subsection (5), after paragraph (b) insert—\n“(c) to pause a review it conducts under this Part for a period specified in the direction or until a further direction is given.”;\n(c) after subsection (9), insert—\n“(10) The Welsh Ministers must not use the powers of direction under this Act to pause a review for more than 9 months, whether the pause is one period of 9 months or more than one period totalling 9 months.\n(11) Any period during which the Commission or a principal council is directed under this Act to pause a review is not to be taken into account for the purpose of calculating the length of the periods mentioned in subsections (2) to (5) of section 36B.”",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 50 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/50",
    "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."
}