Part 1: Constitutional Arrangements Chapter 5: Other provisions about legislation by the Assembly Section 9: Super-majority requirement for certain legislation
Section 9 inserts new sections 111A and 111B into GoWA to require certain types of electoral legislation to be passed by a two-thirds majority of the Assembly.
	Subsection (2) of new section 111A sets out when a provision of an Act relates to a protected subject-matter for the purpose of the section. This is when a provision would modify the law relating to the following specified matters, or enable the law relating to the following matters to be changed by subordinate legislation unless a provision is incidental to or consequential on any other provision of the Act. These specified matters are, in relation to elections to the Assembly: the franchise for those elections, the system by which Assembly members are returned, the specification or number of constituencies and regions or other such areas, and modifying the numbers of members to be returned in each constituency or region or other such areas. The other specified matters are provision changing the name of the Assembly and the number of persons who may hold the office of Welsh Minister or Deputy Welsh Minister (this limit does not include the First Minister). .
	Subsection (3) requires the Presiding Officer to decide before the final stage at which an Assembly Act can be voted on whether, in her view, the provisions of the Act relate to a protected subject-matter. The Presiding Officer must make a statement to this effect. Subsection (4) provides that an Act which the Presiding Officer has decided relates to a protected subject--matter can only be passed if, at its final stage, the number of members voting for it comprises at least two-thirds of the total number of Assembly seats.
	New section 111B provides for the reference to the Supreme Court by the Attorney General or the Counsel General of, the question of whether any provision of an Act, relates to a protected subject-matter.
	Subsection (2) of new section 111B provides that any such reference must be made in certain circumstances within 4 weeks of the passing or rejection of an Act at its final stage, or within 4 weeks of the approval of an Act following reconsideration after a Supreme Court decision.
	Subsection (3) provides that a reference to the Supreme Court cannot be made by the Counsel General if he has previously notified the Presiding Officer that he will not be making a reference or by the Attorney General if he has previously notified the Presiding Officer that he will not be making a reference. Subsection (4) of section 111B ensures this restriction does not apply if after such a notification, the Act has been approved or rejected by the Assembly following reconsideration after a Supreme Court decision.