PART 7COMMUNITIES AND COMMUNITY COUNCILS

CHAPTER 5REVIEWS OF COMMUNITY AREAS AND ELECTORAL ARRANGEMENTS

123Reports about discharge of a principal council's function of keeping electoral arrangements for communities under review

After section 57(4) of the Local Government Act 1972 insert the following—

4A

Each Welsh principal council must, every fifteen years, publish a report which describes what the council has done in the previous fifteen years in order to discharge its duty to keep the whole of the area under review for the purpose described in subsection (4).

4B

The council must send a copy of any report published under subsection (4A) to the Welsh Commission.

4C

The first report under subsection (4A) must be published within four years of the day on which that subsection comes into force.

4D

Further reports must be published within fifteen years of the date on which the last report under subsection (4A) was published.