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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-assembly-for-wales-representation-of-the-people-order-2003/schedule-5/paragraph-9",
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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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  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "9",
  "heading": "Consent to nomination",
  "text": "(1) Subject to sub-paragraph (3), at a constituency election a person shall not be validly nominated unless his consent to nomination—\n(a) is given and dated in writing on, or within one month before, the day fixed as the last day for the delivery of nomination papers,\n(b) is attested by one witness, and\n(c) is delivered at the place, and within the time, for the delivery of nomination papers.\n(2) Subject to sub-paragraph (3), at a regional election a person shall not be validly nominated (whether as an individual or a party list candidate) unless his consent to nomination—\n(a) is given and dated in writing on, or within one month before, the day fixed as the last day for the delivery of individual or party nomination papers,\n(b) is attested by one witness, and\n(c) is delivered at the place or a place, and within the time, for the delivery of individual or party nomination papers.\n(3) If the appropriate returning officer is satisfied that owing to the absence of a person from the United Kingdom it has not been reasonably practicable for his consent in writing to be given as mentioned above, a facsimile communication (or any similar means of communication) consenting to his nomination and purporting to have been sent by him shall be deemed for the purposes of this paragraph to be consent in writing by him on the day on which it purports to have been sent, and attestation of his consent shall not be required.\n(4) A candidate’s consent given under this paragraph—\n(a) shall state the day, month and year of his birth, and\n(b) shall state—\n(i) that he is aware of the provisions of sections 12 to 15 of the 1998 Act (disqualification) and the National Assembly for Wales (Disqualification) Order 2003, and\n(ii) that to the best of his knowledge and belief he is not disqualified for membership of the Assembly.\n(5) A candidate is required to give his consent under this paragraph notwithstanding that he has subscribed the nomination paper by virtue of which he is nominated.",
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      "text": "S.I. 2003/437."
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