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Section 2 How a Member of the Senedd becomes subject to a recall pollI1

England and Wales Not yet in force

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

(1)

A Member of the Senedd becomes subject to a recall poll if—

(a)

trigger event A or trigger event B has occurred in relation to the Member of the Senedd, and

(b)

the Presiding Officer gives notice of that fact under section 6.

(2)

Trigger event A is that the Member of the Senedd, after becoming a Member of the Senedd, is convicted in the United Kingdom of an offence for which the member is sentenced or ordered to be imprisoned or detained.

(3)

Sections 3 and 4 contain more about trigger event A.

(4)

Trigger event B is that Senedd Cymru resolves to submit the Member of the Senedd to a recall poll following a report from the Standards of Conduct Committee recommending submission of the member to a recall poll.

(5)

Section 5 contains more about trigger event B.

(6)

The provision made by or under this Act in relation to a recall poll does not affect other ways in which a Member of the Senedd’s seat may be vacated.

Annotations

Commencement

I1

S. 2 not in force at Royal Assent, see s. 26(3)