Elections and Elected Bodies (Wales) Act 2024

44 Names of electoral wards

(1) The 2013 Act is amended as follows.

(2) After section 36 (reporting on review) insert—

“36A Names of electoral ward‍s

(1) Subsection (2) applies to a review report under this Part so far as it relates to—

(a) an electoral ward that has different names (in any respect) for the purposes of identifying the ward in communication through Welsh and English;

(b) a proposal for an electoral ward to have different names in any respect for the purposes of identifying the ward in communication through Welsh and English.

(2) The Commission or the principal council (as the case may be) must specify both names or proposed names for the electoral ward in each language version of a report under section 35(2), 36(3) or 36(4).

(3) Before making a report under section 35(2), 36(3) or 36(4), the Commission or a principal council (as the case may be) must have regard, in particular, to any representations received from the Welsh Language Commissioner on the orthography of the name or proposed name of an electoral ward to which the report relates.

(4) In this section “each language version means the Welsh version and the English version.”