{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-elections-wales-amendment-rules-2026/rule-8",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-elections-wales-amendment-rules-2026/rule-8.json",
  "legislation": "wsi/2026/84",
  "legislation_title": "The Local Elections (Wales) (Amendment) Rules 2026",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-elections-wales-amendment-rules-2026",
  "path": "rule/8",
  "kind": "rule",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "In rule 22 (the ballot papers), after paragraph (4)(a) insert—\n“(aa) where a candidate has elected to use the word “Wales”, “Welsh”, “Cymru” or “Cymreig” in a description as set out in rules 6(7) and 7, display that word or those words on the ballot paper,”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Rule 22 was amended by rule 3(3) of S.I. 2023/1064 (W. 180)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2026/84/rule/8",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T22:55:06.501139+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."
}