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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-assembly-for-wales-representation-of-the-people-order-2003/schedule-5/paragraph-13",
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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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  "path": "schedule/5/paragraph/13",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "13",
  "heading": "Decisions as to validity of individual nomination papers",
  "text": "(1) At an Assembly election an individual candidate shall be deemed to stand nominated where an individual nomination paper by which he is nominated and his consent to nomination are delivered and a deposit is made in accordance with this Schedule; and such candidate shall be deemed to stand nominated unless and until—\n(a) the appropriate returning officer decides that the nomination paper is invalid,\n(b) proof is given to the appropriate returning officer’s satisfaction of the candidate’s death, or\n(c) the candidate withdraws.\n(2) The appropriate returning officer is entitled to hold an individual nomination paper invalid only on one of the following grounds—\n(a) that the particulars of the candidate are not as required by law (including, at a constituency election, that an individual nomination paper breaches paragraph 5(1)),\n(b) that the paper is not subscribed as so required,\n(c) that the candidate is disqualified by the Representation of the People Act 1981 (as applied by the 1998 Act), and\n(d) in the case of an individual candidate at a regional election, that he falls within section 5(6) of the 1998 Act.\n(3) Subject to sub-paragraph (4), the appropriate returning officer shall give his decision on any objection to an individual nomination paper as soon as practicable after it is made.\n(4) If in the constituency returning officer’s opinion an individual nomination paper breaches paragraph 5(1), he shall give a decision to that effect as soon as practicable after the close of the period for delivery of nomination papers set out in the Table in paragraph 1(1).\n(5) Where the appropriate returning officer decides that an individual nomination paper is invalid, he shall endorse and sign on the paper the fact and the reasons for his decision.\n(6) The appropriate returning officer’s decision that a nomination paper is valid shall be final and shall not be questioned in any proceeding whatsoever.\n(7) Subject to sub-paragraph (6), nothing in this paragraph prevents the validity of a nomination being questioned on an election petition.",
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  "version": "current",
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      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1981 c. 34."
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