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  "legislation_title": "The National Assembly for Wales (Representation of the People) Order 2003",
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  "heading": "Form of declaration of identity",
  "text": "The declaration of identity sent with the postal ballot paper to a postal voter shall be—\n(a) in the form set out in English and Welsh in the Appendix at an ordinary election where a postal voter is entitled to give two votes and where the polls at the elections are not held together with the poll at another election under article 15(1) or (2),\n(b) in the form set out in English and Welsh in the Appendix at an Assembly election where the poll at the election is not held together with the poll at another election under article 15(1) or (2) (and where sub-paragraph (a) does not apply),\n(c) in the form set out in English and Welsh in the Appendix at an Assembly election (whether or not at an ordinary election where a postal voter is entitled to give two votes) where the proceedings on the issue and receipt of postal ballot papers are taken together with those proceedings at another election under paragraph 2,\n(d) in the form set out in English and Welsh in the Appendix at an ordinary election where a postal voter is entitled to give two votes, the polls at which are taken together with the poll at another election under article 15(1) or (2) in any part of an Assembly constituency, but where the proceedings on the issue and receipt of postal ballot papers are not taken together under paragraph 2, for use in that part of the constituency in which polls at more than one election are taken together under article 15(1) or (2), and\n(e) in the form set out in English and Welsh in the Appendix at an Assembly election, the poll at which is taken together with the poll at another election under article 15(1) or (2) in any part of an Assembly constituency, but where the proceedings on the issue and receipt of postal ballot papers are not taken together under paragraph 2, for use in that part of the constituency in which polls at more than one election are taken together under article 15(1) or (2) (and where sub-paragraph (d) does not apply).",
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