{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-and-elections-wales-act-2021/section-42",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-and-elections-wales-act-2021/section-42.json",
  "legislation": "asc/2021/1",
  "legislation_title": "Local Government and Elections (Wales) Act 2021",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-and-elections-wales-act-2021",
  "path": "section/42",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "42",
  "heading": "Duty to make petition scheme",
  "text": "(1) A principal council must make and publish a scheme (a “petition scheme”) setting out how the council intends to handle and respond to petitions (including electronic petitions).\n(2) A petition scheme must, in particular, set out—\n(a) how a petition may be submitted to the council;\n(b) how and by when the council will acknowledge receipt of a petition;\n(c) the steps the council may take in response to a petition received by it;\n(d) the circumstances (if any) in which the council may take no further action in response to a petition;\n(e) how and by when the council will make available its response to a petition to the person who submitted the petition and to the public.\n(3) A principal council must review its petition scheme from time to time and, if the council considers it appropriate, revise the scheme.\n(4) If a principal council revises or replaces a petition scheme, it must publish the revised or new scheme.\n(5) This section applies to a corporate joint committee as it applies to a principal council and references in subsections (1) to (4) to a principal council are to be construed accordingly.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 42(5) inserted (6.5.2022) by The Corporate Joint Committees (General) (No. 2) (Wales) Regulations 2021 (S.I. 2021/1349), regs. 1(3)(c), 31"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 42 in force at 5.5.2022 by S.I. 2021/231, art. 6(d)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/asc/2021/1/section/42",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:17:57.648401+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."
}