27 Services to promote diversity in persons seeking elected office

Diversity in persons seeking elected office

27  Services to promote diversity in persons seeking elected office

(1)     The Welsh Ministers must make arrangements for the provision of services to promote diversity in the protected characteristics and socio-economic circumstances of persons seeking to be elected as members of Senedd Cymru and the councils of counties, county boroughs and communities in Wales.

(2)     The Welsh Ministers must, in discharging their duty under subsection (1), have regard to—

(a)     whether there are groups of persons with the same protected characteristics that are under-represented in the membership of Senedd Cymru or the

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