{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-assembly-for-wales-representation-of-the-people-order-1999/article-65",
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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/65",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "65",
  "heading": "Registered political parties: inspection of returns and declarations",
  "text": "(1) Any returns or declarations (including the accompanying documents) delivered to the Assembly under articles 45, 55 or 57—\n(a) shall be kept at some convenient place in Wales appointed by the Assembly, and\n(b) shall at all reasonable times during the two years next after they are received by the Assembly be open to inspection by any person on payment of the fee specified in paragraph (2),\nand the Assembly shall on demand and on payment of the fee specified in paragraph (3) provide copies of them or any part of them.\n(2) The fee for inspecting a return or declaration (including any accompanying documents) referred to in paragraph (1) shall be £1.50.\n(3) The fee payable for a copy of any such return, declaration or document referred to in paragraph (1) shall be at the rate of 15p for each side of each page.\n(4) After the expiry of those two years the Assembly—\n(a) may cause those returns and declarations (including the accompanying documents) to be destroyed, or\n(b) if a registered nominating officer so requires, shall return them to him or such other person as the registered nominating officer may require.\n(5) Any returns or declarations delivered under article 45 shall be returned not to a registered nominating officer (if he so requires) but to the person delivering them, if he so requires.\n(6) The Assembly may by order made by statutory instrument vary the amount of any fee payable under paragraph (2) or (3).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "omitted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2002/834",
      "affecting_title": "The National Assembly for Wales (Representation of the People) (Amendment) Order 2002"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1999/450/article/65",
    "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."
}