Commentary on Sections Part 2 Elected Bodies and Their Members Chapter 1: Arrangements for Local Government Section 44 – Names of electoral wards
113.Section 44 requires the Commission and county or county borough council to consider the naming of electoral wards as part of its pre-review consultation procedure.
114.It inserts section 36A into the 2013 Act which requires the Commission and county or county borough councils (as the case may be) to, in the case of electoral wards that have different names for the purposes of identifying the wards in communication through Welsh and English, specify the Welsh and English language names or proposed names of the electoral wards in both the Welsh and English language versions of their draft and further review reports.
115.Regard must be taken of representations made by the Welsh Language Commissioner as to the orthography of electoral ward names, which may include monolingual electoral ward names.