Paragraph 56 Regional election: conveying results of count etc to regional returning officer

Changes not yet applied. Later legislation changes this provision in ways not yet written into the text below:

Sch. 5 modified by National Assembly for Wales (Representation of the People) 2003 Sch. 4 Pt. 2
Sch. 5 para. 12(5) words substituted by Civil Partnership Act 2004 (Amendments to Subordinate Legislation) 2005 art. 2(11) Sch. 11 para. 1(7)(a)
Sch. 5 para. 40(5)(a) words substituted by Civil Partnership Act 2004 (Amendments to Subordinate Legislation) 2005 art. 2(11) Sch. 11 para. 1(7)(b)
Sch. 5 para. 40(5)(b) words substituted by Civil Partnership Act 2004 (Amendments to Subordinate Legislation) 2005 art. 2(11) Sch. 11 para. 1(7)(c)
Sch. 5 para. 40(6)(a) words substituted by Civil Partnership Act 2004 (Amendments to Subordinate Legislation) 2005 art. 2(11) Sch. 11 para. 1(7)(d)
Sch. 5 para. 40(6)(b) words substituted by Civil Partnership Act 2004 (Amendments to Subordinate Legislation) 2005 art. 2(11) Sch. 11 para. 1(7)(e)
Sch. 5 para. 44(3)(b) words substituted by Civil Partnership Act 2004 (Amendments to Subordinate Legislation) 2005 art. 2(11) Sch. 11 para. 1(7)(f)
Sch. 5 para. 49(7)(b) words substituted by Civil Partnership Act 2004 (Amendments to Subordinate Legislation) 2005 art. 2(11) Sch. 11 para. 1(7)(g)
Sch. 5 para. 50(1) words substituted by National Assembly for Wales (Representation of the People) 2006 art. 8(a)
Sch. 5 para. 50(6A)(6B) inserted by National Assembly for Wales (Representation of the People) 2006 art. 8(b)

(1)

At the conclusion of the count of ballot papers in an Assembly constituency at a regional election the constituency returning officer shall, in accordance with any directions given by the regional returning officer, certify—

(a)

the number of ballot papers counted by him and the total number of votes given for each individual candidate or registered political party, and

(b)

the number of rejected ballot papers under each head shown in the statement of rejected ballot papers, and

forthwith convey that information to the regional returning officer.

(2)

Where the regional returning officer has received the information required to be conveyed to him under sub-paragraph (1) from each constituency returning officer for an Assembly constituency in the Assembly electoral region, he shall certify the totals of the numbers referred to in sub-paragraph (1) for the electoral region.

(3)

After a constituency returning officer has conveyed to the regional returning officer the information required to be conveyed under sub-paragraph (1) he may give public notice of the information so conveyed (in such manner as he considers appropriate) unless sub-paragraph (4) applies.

(4)

The regional returning officer may direct that the constituency returning officer may only give the notice referred to in sub-paragraph (3) after the regional returning officer has given the notice that he is required to give under paragraph 59(1)(d).