The Welsh Assembly

The Welsh Assembly

The changes that was made in the 2011 welsh assembly referendum was regarding the ability to extend the law-making powers of the National Assembly for Wales to be extended to all matters in the 20 subject areas, which include: agriculture, education, training and economic development. As a result of the election process that had taken place at 3^rd of March 2011, the results were declared by the following day showing a 63.49% acceptance for extending the law making power of the Welsh Assembly. Before the referendum, the Assembly used to make its own laws on some matters, however, for other matters the Assembly used to had to ask the UK Parliament to transfer the power to them. Nevertheless, now the Welsh Assembly government and the Assembly can make laws for wales on all subject matters without the permission from the UK Parliament first, therefore, this represented a substantial development in the Welsh devolution.

References:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welsh_devolution_referendum,_2011

http://www.assemblywales.org/bus-home/bus-legislation/bus-legislation-guidance/bus-legislation-guidance-documents/legislation_fields/schedule-5.htm

http://wales.gov.uk/legislation/referendumpowers/?lang=en