{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-assembly-for-wales-representation-of-the-people-amendment-order-2002/article-4",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2002/834",
  "legislation_title": "The National Assembly for Wales (Representation of the People) (Amendment) Order 2002",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-assembly-for-wales-representation-of-the-people-amendment-order-2002",
  "path": "article/4",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Article 2 (Interpretation)",
  "text": "(1) Article 2 of the principal Order shall be amended as follows.\n(2) In paragraph (1)—\n(a) for the definition of “dwelling house” substitute—\n““dwelling” includes any part of a building where that part is occupied separately as a dwelling”;\n(b) in each of the definitions of “registered emblem” and “registered political party” for “the Registration of Political Parties Act 1998” substitute “Part II of the 2000 Political Parties Act”;\n(c) in the definition of “registered nominating officer” for “has the same meaning as in the Registration of Political Parties Act 1998” substitute “means the person registered under Part II of the 2000 Political Parties Act as the officer with responsibility for the matters referred to in section 24(3) of that Act in respect of a registered political party”;\n(d) in the definition of “service voter”, the reference to section 15 of the Representation of the People Act 1983 is a reference to that section as amended by the Representation of the People Act 2000;\n(e) after the definition of “the 1998 Act” insert—\n““the 2000 Act” means the Representation of the People Act 2000,\n“the 2000 Political Parties Act” means the Political Parties, Elections and Referendums Act 2000,”; and\n(f) after the definition of “the 1986 Regulations” insert—\n““the 2001 Regulations” means the Representation of the People (England and Wales) Regulations 2001,” .",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1983 c. 2; section 15 was amended by the 2000 Act, Schedule 1, paragraph 8, and by Schedule 7."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "2000 c. 2."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "S.I. 2001/341, amended by S.I. 2001/700."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f4",
      "text": "Another amendment to article 2(1) of the principal Order is made by article 14."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2002/834/article/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T07:07:15.027417+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."
}