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Regulation 15 Reports

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(1)

No later than 6 months after the day of the poll of a Welsh election, the scheme operator must publish a report.

(2)

The report must include details of—

(a)

the number of approaches made to the scheme operator for financial assistance;

(b)

the number of applications received, approved and rejected;

(c)

the nature of the candidates’ disabilities together with details of the support required for which financial assistance was requested;

(d)

circumstances when financial assistance was approved but not paid within a timescale that enabled the candidate to be assisted, and the reasons why;

(e)

the amount of financial assistance provided including a breakdown of the payments made;

(f)

the occasions when notice was provided by the scheme operator requiring the repayment of any part of financial assistance paid to a person under the financial assistance scheme;

(g)

feedback from candidates about their experience of using the financial assistance scheme.

(3)

The report published under paragraph (1) must—

(a)

be in an anonymised format;

(b)

not include information capable of identifying a candidate as the recipient of the approved financial assistance;

(c)

not contravene data protection legislation (within the meaning of the Data Protection Act 2018f1).

Annotations

Footnotes

f1

2018 c. 12.