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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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  "heading": "Nomination paper: name of registered political party",
  "text": "(1) At an Assembly election, an individual nomination paper may not include a description of a candidate which is likely to lead voters to associate the candidate with a registered political party unless, in the case of a constituency election, the party is a qualifying party in relation to the constituency and the description is authorised by a certificate in the form set out in English and Welsh in the Appendix—\n(a) issued by the party’s registered nominating officer, and\n(b) received by the constituency returning officer at some time during the period for the delivery of nomination papers set out in the Table in paragraph 1(1).\n(2) If it is proposed that the party’s registered emblem (or as the case may be, one of the party’s registered emblems) is to be shown on the ballot paper against the candidate’s particulars, a certificate issued under sub-paragraph (1) shall request that it be so shown.\n(3) A certificate issued under sub-paragraph (1) may be combined with an individual nomination paper delivered under paragraph 4(1).\n(4) A person shall be guilty of a corrupt practice if he fraudulently purports to be authorised by virtue of paragraph 70, to issue a certificate under sub-paragraph (1) on behalf of a party’s registered nominating officer.\n(5) In the application of this paragraph and paragraph 6 in relation to an election—\n(a) “registered political party” means a party which was registered under Part II of the 2000 Political Parties Act at the time by which the notice of election is required to be published by virtue of paragraph 3 (“the relevant time”);\n(b) a registered political party is a qualifying party in relation to an Assembly constituency if the party was at the relevant time registered in respect of Wales in the Great Britain register maintained under that Part of that Act.",
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