The National Assembly for Wales Referendum (Assembly Act Provisions) (Referendum Question, Date of Referendum Etc.) Order 2010

Supplementary

11.—(1) The Chief Counting Officer may give general or specific directions to relevant counting officers—

(a) relating to the discharge of their functions in the referendum;

(b) requiring them to take specified steps in preparation for the referendum; or

(c) requiring them to provide to the Chief Counting Officer any information which the relevant counting officer has or is entitled to have.

(2) It is the duty of a relevant counting officer to whom directions are given under paragraph (1) to discharge the officer’s functions in the referendum in accordance with the directions.

(3) The referendum is not liable to be questioned by reason of a defect in the appointment of the Chief Counting Officer, or a relevant counting officer, if that person was then in actual possession of, or acting in, that office.

(4) Articles 9(4) and 10(4) do not allow the Chief Counting Officer or a counting officer to transfer to another person the duty imposed on each of them under respectively sections 128(5) or (6) of the 2000 Act (Chief Counting Officer and counting officer for referendums).

(5) In this article “relevant counting officer” means—

(a) a Deputy Chief Counting Officer; and

(b) a counting officer.

(6) In paragraph (1)(a) “functions” does not include the counting officer’s function under section 128(5) of the 2000 Act.