{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/welsh-elections-information-platform-regulations-2025/regulation-17",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/welsh-elections-information-platform-regulations-2025/regulation-17.json",
  "legislation": "wsi/2025/331",
  "legislation_title": "The Welsh Elections Information Platform Regulations 2025",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/welsh-elections-information-platform-regulations-2025",
  "path": "regulation/17",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "17",
  "heading": "Reports by Welsh Ministers on functions exercised in relation to the platform",
  "text": "(1) The Welsh Ministers must publish a report for each specified election that sets out how functions conferred on the platform operator by these Regulations have been exercised in relation to that election.\n(2) A report under paragraph (1) must be published—\n(a) in the case of functions exercised in respect of a Senedd Cymru election, before the end of the period of 12 months beginning with the day of the poll for that election;\n(b) in the case of functions exercised in respect of ordinary elections of principal councils, before the end of the period of 12 months beginning with the day of the poll for those elections.\n(3) A report under paragraph (1) must include, in relation to the election to which the report relates—\n(a) how the platform operator has engaged with local authority partners, electoral administrators and other providers of information in exercising its functions in relation to the election;\n(b) a summary of the information that has been published on the platform to support electors’ participation in the specified election;\n(c) an evaluation as to the usage of the platform, including the extent to which parts of the platform have been accessed by users;\n(d) an assessment of the cost of operating the platform, including maintenance costs.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 17 in force at 14.3.2025, see reg. 1(2)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2025/331/regulation/17",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T22:58:09.234667+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."
}