7 Power to provide for additional polling days

7  Power to provide for additional polling days

(1)     This section applies if the day for the holding of the poll of the 2021 election is fixed under section 6.

(2)     The Welsh Ministers may, by regulations made by statutory instrument, provide that polling that would otherwise be required to take place only on the date fixed under section 6 may take place on one or more additional days specified in the regulations.

(3)     Regulations under subsection (2) may—

(a)     specify a day only if it falls within the period of 7 days immediately preceding the day fixed for the holding of the poll;

(b)     require polling on additional days to take place at

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