{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/senedd-cymru-members-and-elections-act-2024/section-14",
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  "legislation": "asc/2024/4",
  "legislation_title": "Senedd Cymru (Members and Elections) Act 2024",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/senedd-cymru-members-and-elections-act-2024",
  "path": "section/14",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "14",
  "heading": "Persons who may not be members or chief executive of the Commission",
  "text": "(1) In section 4(3) of the 2013 Act (persons who may not be appointed as members of the Commission)—\n(a) for “The Welsh Ministers may not appoint a person who is” substitute “A member may not be”;\n(b) for paragraph‍ (a) substitute—\n“(a) a member of a UK legislature;”;\n(c) for paragraph (b) substitute—\n“(ba) a‍ person engaged by a member of‍ a UK legislature, under a contract of service or a contract for services, in connection with the carrying out of the member’s functions;\n(bb) a person engaged by a registered political party under a contract of service or a contract for services;\n(bc) a special advise‍r;”.\n(2) In section 8(4) of that Act (persons who may not be appointed as chief executive)—\n(a) for paragraph (a) substitute—\n“(a) a member of a UK legislature;”;‍\n(b) for paragraph (b) substitute—\n“(ba) a‍ person engaged by a member of‍ a UK legislature, under a contract of service or a contract for services, in connection with the carrying out of the member’s functions;\n(bb) a person engaged by a registered political party under a contract of service or a contract for services;\n(bc) a special advise‍r;”.\n(3) In section 72(1) of that Act (interpretation), at the appropriate places insert—\n““member of a UK legislature” means—\n(a) a Member of the Senedd;\n(b) a member of the House of Commons;\n(c) a member of the House of Lords;\n(d) a member of the Scottish Parliament;\n(e) a member of the Northern Ireland Assembly,”;\n““registered political party” means a party registered under Part 2 of the Political Parties, Elections and Referendums Act 2000 (c.‍ 41),”;\n““special adviser‍” means a special adviser within the meaning of—\n(a) Chapter 1 of Part 1 of the Constitutional Reform and Governance Act 2010 (c. 25), or\n(b) section 1 of the Civil Service (Special Advisers) Act (Northern Ireland) 2013 (c. 8 (N.I.)).”\n(4) In Schedule 3 to that Act (index of defined expressions), in table 2—\n(a) after the entry for “mandatory consultees” insert—\n“\nMember of a UK legislature” (Aelod o un o ddeddfwrfeydd y DU)\nSection 72(1)\n”;\n(b) after the entry for “qualifying public body” insert—\n“\nRegistered political party (Plaid wleidyddol gofrestredig)\nSection 72(1)\n”;\n(c) after the entry for “single member area” insert—\n“\nSpecial adviser (Cynghorydd arbennig)\nSection 72(1)\n”.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 14 in force at 25.6.2024, see s. 25(1)(a)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/asc/2024/4/section/14",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:17:46.991388+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."
}