PART 3ARRANGEMENTS FOR LOCAL GOVERNMENT
CHAPTER 3ELECTORAL ARRANGEMENTS REVIEWS
Communities
32Review of electoral arrangements for community by the Commission
1
The Commission may, in any of the circumstances described in subsection (2), conduct a review of the electoral arrangements for a community.
2
The circumstances are—
a
where the Commission has agreed to exercise a principal council's function of conducting reviews under section 31(5);
b
where the Commission has been requested to conduct a review of a community by —
i
the community council, or
ii
not less than 30 local government electors from the community;
c
where a principal council has not complied with a direction by the Welsh Ministers to conduct a review of the electoral arrangements for one or more of its communities.
3
But the Commission must not conduct a review under subsection (1) following a request by a community council or local government electors if it considers that doing so would impede the proper exercise of its functions.
4
The changes that the Commission may recommend in relation to any review under this section are—
a
such changes to the electoral arrangements for the community that the Commission considers appropriate, and
b
in consequence of any change to the electoral arrangements for the community, such changes to the electoral arrangements of the principal area, as it considers appropriate.
5
Where the Commission conducts a review in the circumstances described in subsection (2)(c), it may recover the cost of doing so from the principal council.
6
In the event of a disagreement between the Commission and the principal council as to the amount payable to the Commission under subsection (5), the Welsh Ministers may determine that amount.
7
Any sum payable to the Commission under this section is recoverable as a debt due to the Commission.