I ask Members to support my amendments 95 and 96, which provide for persons enfranchised by the Bill to be able to register to vote from 1 June 2020, rather than on Royal Assent. This will ensure sufficient time for software updates, testing and training to be made to electoral management systems and the individual electoral registration digital service, before those persons enfranchised by the Bill begin registering to vote. Such persons would still be enfranchised when the Bill receives Royal Assent, but they won't be able to begin registering to vote until 1 June 2020. Before tabling amendments 95 and 96, I received assurance from the electoral community that they were content with delaying the point at which individuals who are newly enfranchised in this Bill are able to register to vote.

I also ask Members to support my amendment 85, which is a simple amendment to clarify the English version of the Bill, that the reference to ‘election’ in section 1(4) is a reference to Senedd elections.

Deputy Presiding Officer, this is the final time that I will speak this evening. The Bill is about to go forward to the final vote in its legislative process, at Stage 4. The Bill includes different elements to those that I tabled in the first instance: an official name in English and Welsh for the Senedd; our elective franchise will include foreign nationals; councillors will not be qualified to be Members of the Senedd; and the Electoral Commission will be accountable to the Senedd. Members across the Chamber, in all political groups, have opposed one or more of these issues. Despite this, as an entirety, I hope that the content and spirit of the Bill is sufficient to attract the required majority at Stage 4 so that we can create a Senedd for the twenty-first century that is deserving of the ambitions of the people of Wales.