The Welsh Assembly

       The Welsh Assembly is the law-making body of Wales. It consists 60 elected members; 40 of them are chosen to represent individual constituencies and 5 of them are chosen to represent the 5 regions of Wales. It can be suggested that because Cardiff city is the capital of Wales, the government building where the Assembly hold its plenary meeting is also located in Cardiff. This building is called the Senedd which was opened in 2006. It has public spaces where the people of Wales can watch Assembly meetings.
 
    History of Welsh Assembly Devolution  

• First of all, according to the Cambridge advanced learners dictionary[online] devolution is the moving of power or responsibility from a main organization to a lower level, or from a central government to a regional government. In the case of Wales, it was the movement of some powers from the UK government to the Welsh one.
• The commencement of this devolution was in 1997 when the people of Wales voted 'yes' in a referendum which led to the 1998 creation of the National Assembly for Wales. (Welsh Assembly Government, 2011) 
• Later on, in the 2006 Government of Wales Act, the National Assembly for Wales was given power to ask for allowance to create laws on issues re-assigned to the National Assembly.
• Recently, the 2011 referendum on law-making powers for the National Assembly for Wales resulted in a 'yes' vote. This does not mean that the National Assembly for Wales can make laws on more areas than before but that it no longer requires the assertion of the UK parliament in making laws on 20 devolved areas of economy. Some of these areas are agriculture, education, the environment, health, housing and local government.(National Assembly for Wales, 2012)  

     Summarily, this latest referendum has brough about a number of differences in welsh law-makin such as: "Assembly laws will no longer be called Assembly Measures;Proposed laws will now be called Bills" and many more     .

                                                            GoogleImages(2011)

References:

Welsh Assembly Government (2011) History of Devolved Government in Wales. Available at: http://wales.gov.uk/about/history/devolved/?lang=en (Accessed: 24 February 2012)

National Assembly for Wales (2012) The Referendum. Available at: http://www.assemblywales.org/gethome/vote2011/get_involved-referendum.htm    

GoogleImages (2011) [Online]. Welsh Referendum 2011 Available at: http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=welsh+referendum+2011&hl=en&safe=off&prmd=imvns&source=lnms&tbm/ 
 (Accessed: 24 February 2012).