Local Government and Elections (Wales) Act 2021

1 Overview

This Part—

(a) provides for the extension of the right to vote in local government elections to new categories of person (sections 2 to 4);

(b) provides for two systems for the election of councillors for principal councils (the simple majority system and the single transferable vote system) and makes provision about which system applies to any particular council (including a power for any councils to decide which applies) and the powers to make rules for such elections (sections 5 to 13);

(c) provides for change to the electoral cycle for local government elections from four years to five years (sections 14 to 16) and extension of the power to change the ordinary day of local elections in Wales (section 17);

(d) provides for registration of local government electors without application (section 18);

(e) makes provision about qualification for election and holding office as a member of a local authority (section 19);

(f) makes provision about disqualification for election or from holding office as a member of a local authority (sections 20 and 21);

(g) makes provision about the display of documents at local elections (section 22);

(h) makes provision about meeting returning officers’ expenditure (paragraph 2(5) of Schedule 2).