SCHEDULE 1MODIFICATIONS OF ENACTMENTS

Political Parties, Elections and Referendums Act 2000

98.—(1) Schedule 1, paragraph 14 (financing the Electoral Commission) is amended as follows.

(2) Omit “or” at the end of sub-paragraph (a).

(3) For sub-paragraph (b) substitute —

(b)met by the Welsh Ministers in pursuance of section 5(3) or 20(12); or

(c)met by the National Assembly for Wales Commission under Schedule 2 paragraph 6 to the Government of Wales Act 2006. .

(4) Until the end of the initial period, paragraph 14(1)(b) has effect as if it included a reference to expenditure of the Commission met by the National Assembly for Wales constituted by the Government of Wales Act 1998 in pursuance of paragraphs 5 and 6 of Schedule 2 to the Government of Wales Act 2006 (as modified by paragraph 18 of Schedule 11 to that Act).