{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/elections-welsh-forms-order-2001/article-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/elections-welsh-forms-order-2001/article-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2001/1204",
  "legislation_title": "The Elections (Welsh Forms) Order 2001",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/elections-welsh-forms-order-2001",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) “Annibynnol” is hereby prescribed as the form of words in Welsh for the word “Independent” which is specified for use as the description of a candidate in a nomination paper by rule 6(3)(b) of the rules in Schedule 1 to the Representation of the People Act 1983.\n(2) The form of words in Welsh which is prescribed by paragraph (1) may be used as well as or in place of the equivalent word in English at a parliamentary election in Wales.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1983 c. 2; rule 6(3) was substituted by section 38(2) of the Political Parties, Elections and Referendums Act 2000 (c. 41)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "rev",
      "affecting": "uksi/2005/1105",
      "affecting_title": "The Parliamentary Elections (Welsh Forms) Order 2005"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2001/1204/article/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T07:52:59.059984+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}