# The National Assembly for Wales (Representation of the People) Order 2003, Article 37: Office of election agent and sub-agent


(1) Every election agent and every sub-agent shall have an office to which all claims, notices, legal processes and other documents may be sent, and the address of the office shall be—
(a) declared to the appropriate returning officer at the same time as the appointment of the agent is declared to him,
(b) stated in the public notice, and
(c) in the case of a regional election, stated in the notice to the constituency returning officers.
(2) The office—
(a) subject to article 38(6), of an election agent for a constituency election shall be—
(i) in the Assembly constituency for which the election is held or an adjoining Assembly constituency, or
(ii) in a county or county borough which is partly comprised in or adjoins the first mentioned Assembly constituency,
(b) subject to article 38(6), of an election agent for a regional election shall be in the Assembly electoral region, and
(c) of a sub-agent shall be in the area within which he is appointed to act.
(3) Any claim, notice, legal process or other document delivered at the office of the election agent or sub-agent and addressed to him, shall be deemed to have been served on him and every election agent may, in respect of any matter connected with the election in which he is acting, be sued in any court having jurisdiction at the place where his office is situated.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2003/284/article/37 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/national-assembly-for-wales-representation-of-the-people-order-2003/article-37
Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives.

