Section 3D Protocol about the Law Commission's work: WalesF1
The Welsh Ministers and the Law Commission may agree for the purposes of this section a statement (a “protocol”) about the Law Commission's work relating to Welsh devolved matters.
The protocol may include (among other things) provision about—
the principles and methods to be applied in deciding the work relating to such matters to be carried out by the Law Commission and in the carrying out of that work;
the assistance and information that the Welsh Ministers and the Law Commission are to give to each other;
the way in which the Welsh Ministers are to deal with Law Commission proposals so far as they relate to Welsh devolved matters.
The Welsh Ministers and the Law Commission must from time to time review the protocol and may agree to revise it.
The Law Commission must not agree the protocol (or any revision of it) without the Lord Chancellor's approval.
The Welsh Ministers must lay the protocol (and any revision of it) before the National Assembly for Wales.
The Welsh Ministers and the Law Commission must have regard to the protocol.
“Law Commission proposal” has the meaning given in section 3C(8)(a).
In this section and section 3C, the Law Commission's work (including any of their proposals) relates to Welsh devolved matters so far as it relates to—
any matter provision about which would be within the legislative competence of the National Assembly for Wales if it were contained in an Act of the Assembly, or
(so far as it is not within paragraph (a)), any matter functions with respect to which are exercisable by the Welsh Ministers, the First Minister for Wales, the Counsel General to the Welsh Government or the National Assembly for Wales Commission.
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Ss. 3C, 3D inserted (17.2.2015) by Wales Act 2014 (c. 29), ss. 25(4), 29(2)(c)