# The National Assembly for Wales (Representation of the People) Order 1999, Article 66: Right to send election address post free


(1) At an ordinary election or at an Assembly election other than at an ordinary election, each individual candidate or group of party list candidates at such an election (subject to Post Office regulations) shall be entitled to send free of charge for postage either—
(a) one unaddressed postal communication, containing matter relating to such election wholly and not exceeding 60 grammes in weight, to each place in the Assembly constituency or electoral region for which the election is being held at which he or they are a candidate or candidates which, in accordance with those regulations, constitutes a delivery point for the purposes of this article, or
(b) one such postal communication addressed to each elector.
(2) He or they shall also, subject as mentioned in paragraph (1), be entitled to send free of any charge for postage to each person entered in the list of proxies for the election of which he or they are a candidate or candidates one such communication as mentioned in paragraph (1) for each appointment in respect of which that person is so entered.
(3) In relation to a candidate at a constituency election or to an individual candidate at a regional election, the person shall not be deemed to be a candidate for the purposes of this article unless he is shown as standing nominated in the statement of persons nominated but until publication of that statement any person who declares himself to be a candidate shall be entitled to exercise the right of free postage conferred by this article if he gives such security as may be required by the Post Office for the payment of postage should he not be shown as standing nominated as mentioned above.
(4) In relation to a group of party list candidates at a regional election, those persons shall not be deemed to be candidates for the purposes of this article unless they are all shown as standing nominated in the statement of persons nominated but until publication of that statement persons who declare themselves to be, and comprise all, such candidates shall be entitled to exercise the right of free postage conferred by this article if they give such security as may be required by the Post Office should they not all be shown as standing nominated as mentioned above.
(5) For the purposes of this article “elector” means a person—
(a) who is registered as a local government elector in the Assembly constituency or electoral region for which the election be held in a register to be used at the election, or
(b) who, pending the publication of that register appears in the electors lists for such a register (as corrected by the registration officer) to be entitled to be so registered,
and accordingly includes a person shown in the register or electors lists as below voting age as it appears from the register or those lists that he will be of voting age on the day fixed for the poll, but not otherwise.
(6) The regional returning officer shall be entitled to treat any purported exercise by a group of party list candidates of the right of free postage conferred by this article through their election agent as a valid exercise of that right.
(7) The Post Office Regulations 1987 shall have effect in relation to an Assembly election as if made under paragraph (1) subject to the following modifications and to paragraph 8.
(a) in regulation 1, “section 91 of the Representation of the People Act 1983” shall be construed as a reference to this article,
(b) a reference to “constituency” shall—
(i) in the case of constituency election be construed as a reference to an Assembly constituency, and
(ii) in the case of a regional election be construed as a reference to an Assembly electoral region,
(c) a reference to “candidate” in the case of a regional election shall be construed as a reference to an individual candidate or a group of party list candidates; and “candidates” shall be construed accordingly,
(d) a reference to “the statement of persons nominated” in the case of a regional election shall be construed as a reference to the statement published under paragraph 17 of Schedule 5, and
(e) in the case of a regional election, in the form of certificate set out at the end of the Regulations—
(i) for “Constituency” (in both places) and “the constituency” there shall be substituted “Electoral Region” and “the electoral region” respectively, and (in the case of a group of party list candidates),
(ii) for “a candidate (standing nominated)” (in both places) there shall be substituted “the candidates (standing nominated for [name of registered political party])”, and
(iii) for “Candidate’s Agent” (in both places) there shall be substituted “Candidates' Agent”.
(8) If at a regional election the area of the returning officer is situated in the area of more than one Head Postmaster, the controlling Head Postmaster for the purposes of the Post Office Regulations 1987 shall be determined by the regional returning officer.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1999/450/article/66 (the official version)
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