Commentary on Sections Part 1 Electoral Administration and Registration Chapter 4: Accessibility and Diversity: Welsh Elections Section 26 – Welsh elections information platform
82.The provisions in section 26 are about making information about Welsh elections available to support voters to take part in Welsh elections. Subsection (1) requires the Welsh Ministers by regulations to set up and maintain a Welsh elections information platform that provides up-to-date information about Senedd Cymru elections and elections of county and county borough councils in Wales. It also enables (but does not require) the Welsh Ministers to make regulations about information that should be available on the platform in relation to community council and mayoral elections in Wales.
83.The regulations made by the Welsh Ministers under this section must also require the Welsh Ministers to publish and lay before the Senedd a report about how they have set up and maintained the platform. A report must be published no more than 12 months after an ordinary Senedd election and principal council election.