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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": "16",
  "heading": "Constituency election: publication of statement of persons nominated",
  "text": "(1) At a constituency election the constituency returning officer shall prepare and publish a statement showing the persons who have been and stand nominated and any other persons who have been nominated, with the reason why they no longer stand nominated.\n(2) The statement shall show the names, addresses and descriptions of the persons nominated as given in their individual nomination papers.\n(3) The statement shall show the persons standing nominated arranged alphabetically in the order of their surnames and, if there are two or more of them with the same surname, of their other names.\n(4) In the case of a person nominated by more than one individual nomination paper, the constituency returning officer shall take the particulars required by the foregoing provisions of this paragraph from such one of the papers as the candidate (or the returning officer in default of the candidate) may select.\n(5) The constituency returning officer shall send to the Electoral Commission—\n(a) a copy of the statement; and\n(b) in the case of each candidate standing nominated in respect of whom a certificate has been received by the returning officer in accordance with paragraph 5, a copy of that certificate as well.",
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