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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/individual-candidate-election-expenses-senedd-elections-code-of-practice-2025-appointed-day-wales-order-2026/introduction",
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  "legislation": "wsi/2026/48",
  "legislation_title": "The Individual Candidate Election Expenses (Senedd Elections) Code of Practice 2025 (Appointed Day) (Wales) Order 2026",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/individual-candidate-election-expenses-senedd-elections-code-of-practice-2025-appointed-day-wales-order-2026",
  "path": "introduction",
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  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "Electoral Commission\nREPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE, wales\nSENEDD CYMRU\nMade 12 February 2026\nThe Welsh Ministers, in exercise of the powers conferred by paragraph 20(7)(b) of Schedule 7 to the Senedd Cymru (Representation of the People) Order 2025 (“the 2025 Order”) make the following Order.\nThe Electoral Commission prepared a draft of the Individual Candidate Election Expenses (Senedd Elections) Code of Practice 2025 (“Code of Practice”) in accordance with paragraph 20(1) of Schedule 7 to the 2025 Order and, in accordance with paragraph 20(2) of Schedule 7 to the 2025 Order, submitted it to the Welsh Ministers for approval.\nThe Welsh Ministers approved the draft Code of Practice without modifications in accordance with paragraph 20(3) of Schedule 7 to the 2025 Order, and the draft Code of Practice was laid before Senedd Cymru on 15 December 2025, in accordance with paragraph 20(4) of Schedule 7 to the 2025 Order.\nNo resolution of the kind mentioned in paragraph 20(6) of Schedule 7 to the 2025 Order was made by Senedd Cymru within 40 days of the draft Code of Practice being laid.\nThe Code of Practice was issued, in the form of the draft laid before the Senedd, by the Welsh Ministers under paragraph 20(7)(a) of Schedule 7 to the 2025 Order and the Code of Practice will be published by the Electoral Commission under paragraph 20(7)(c) of Schedule 7 to the 2025 Order.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 2025/864 (W. 150)."
    }
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  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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