{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-assembly-for-wales-representation-of-the-people-order-1999/article-56",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1999/450",
  "legislation_title": "The National Assembly for Wales (Representation of the People) Order 1999",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-assembly-for-wales-representation-of-the-people-order-1999",
  "path": "article/56",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "56",
  "heading": "Individual candidate at Assembly elections: declarations as to election expenses",
  "text": "(1) Each return delivered under article 54(1) shall be accompanied by a declaration made by the election agent in the form set out in English and Welsh in Schedule 6.\n(2) At the same time the election agent delivers that return, or within seven days thereafter—\n(a) each candidate at a constituency election, and\n(b) each individual candidate at a regional election,\nshall deliver to the appropriate returning officer a declaration made by him in the form set out in English and Welsh in that Schedule.\n(3) Where a candidate is out of the United Kingdom when the return is so delivered—\n(a) the declaration required by paragraph (2) may be made by him within 14 days after his return to the United Kingdom, and\n(b) in that case, the declaration shall be forthwith delivered to the appropriate returning officer,\nbut the delay authorised by this provision in making the declaration shall not exonerate the election agent from complying with the provisions of this Order relating to the return and declaration as to election expenses.\n(4) A declaration as to election expenses under this article may be made either before a justice of the peace or before any person who is the chairman or proper officer of a county or county borough council in Wales.\n(5) Where—\n(a) a candidate at a constituency election is his own election agent, or\n(b) an individual candidate at a regional election is his own election agent,\nthe declaration by the election agent as to the election expenses need not be made and the declaration by the candidate as to election expenses shall be modified as specified in the form set out in English and Welsh in Schedule 6.\n(6) If a candidate or election agent knowingly makes the declaration required by this article falsely, he shall be guilty of a corrupt practice.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1999/450/article/56",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T11:00:14.408992+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."
}