{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-elections-principal-areas-wales-rules-2021/rule-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-elections-principal-areas-wales-rules-2021/rule-4.json",
  "legislation": "wsi/2021/1459",
  "legislation_title": "The Local Elections (Principal Areas) (Wales) Rules 2021",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-elections-principal-areas-wales-rules-2021",
  "path": "rule/4",
  "kind": "rule",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Section 22(3)(a) of the Political Parties, Elections and Referendums Act 2000: use of “Annibynnol”",
  "text": "For the purposes of section 22(3)(a) of the Political Parties, Elections and Referendums Act 2000, the description “Annibynnol” may be given in a candidate’s nomination paper at an election of councillors to a county council or county borough council in Wales, instead of, or in addition to, the description “Independent”.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Rule 4 applied (18.7.2025) by The Senedd Cymru (Representation of the People) Order 2025 (S.I. 2025/864), art. 1(2), Sch. 3 para. 22 (with art. 1(4))"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Rule 4 in force at 17.12.2021, see rule 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "2000 c. 41."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2021/1459/rule/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:08:54.669941+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."
}