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  "legislation": "uksi/2003/284",
  "legislation_title": "The National Assembly for Wales (Representation of the People) Order 2003",
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  "number": "12",
  "heading": "Right to attend nomination",
  "text": "(1) In relation to a constituency election, except for the purpose of delivering an individual nomination paper or of assisting the constituency returning officer, and subject to sub-paragraph (5), no person is entitled to attend the proceedings during the time for delivery of individual nomination papers or for making objections to them unless he is—\n(a) a person standing nominated as a candidate,\n(b) the election agent of such a person, or\n(c) the registered nominating officer of a registered political party that has delivered a certificate under paragraph 5(1) in respect of a candidate,\nbut where a candidate acts as his own election agent he may name one other person who shall be entitled to attend in place of his election agent.\n(2) In relation to a regional election, except for the purpose of delivering an individual or party nomination paper or of assisting the regional returning officer, and subject to sub-paragraph (5), no person is entitled to attend the proceedings during the time for delivery of individual or party nomination papers or for making objections to them unless he is—\n(a) a person standing nominated as an individual or party list candidate,\n(b) the election agent of such a person, or\n(c) the registered nominating officer of a registered political party that has submitted a party list,\nbut where an individual candidate acts as his own election agent, or a party list candidate acts as election agent for a group of party list candidates, he may name one other person who shall be entitled to attend in place of his election agent.\n(3) In the case of a constituency election, the right to attend conferred by this paragraph includes the right—\n(a) to inspect, and\n(b) to object to the validity of,\nany individual nomination paper.\n(4) In the case of a regional election, the right to attend conferred by this paragraph includes the right—\n(a) to inspect, and\n(b) to object to the validity of,\nany individual or party nomination paper and, in the case of a party nomination paper, the right to object to the nomination of a party list candidate.\n(5) A wife or husband of a candidate is entitled to be present at the delivery of the nomination paper by which that candidate is nominated, and may afterwards, so long as the candidate stands nominated, attend the proceedings referred to in sub-paragraph (1) or (2), but without any such right as is conferred by sub-paragraph (3) or (4).",
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