{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-assembly-for-wales-returning-officers-accounts-regulations-2011/regulation-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-assembly-for-wales-returning-officers-accounts-regulations-2011/regulation-3.json",
  "legislation": "wsi/2011/676",
  "legislation_title": "The National Assembly for Wales (Returning Officers' Accounts) Regulations 2011",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-assembly-for-wales-returning-officers-accounts-regulations-2011",
  "path": "regulation/3",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Submission of accounts to the Welsh Ministers",
  "text": "(1) Subject to paragraph (4), an account must be submitted within the period of eight months commencing with the day of the Assembly election to which the account relates.\n(2) An account may be submitted in respect of some of the charges which a constituency or a regional returning officer is entitled to recover (“an incomplete account”); but, where a further account is likely to be submitted the incomplete account must include a statement to this effect.\n(3) The statement referred to at paragraph (2) must include the reason for the submission of an incomplete account and the proposed date, agreed with the Principal Accounting Officer, by which the complete accounts will be submitted.\n(4) An account must be accompanied by—\n(a) a receipt in respect of each charge for an expense incurred by the constituency or regional returning officer to whom the account relates; and\n(b) a certificate, signed by that returning officer, in the following terms—\n(i) in English—\n“I declare that this account submitted for the purposes of the payment of charges in respect of services necessarily rendered and expenses necessarily incurred for the efficient and effective conduct of this election in the area for which I am responsible is correct to the best of my knowledge and belief.”; or\n(ii) in Welsh—\n“Yr wyf yn datgan bod y cyfrif hwn, a gyflwynir at ddibenion talu costau yng nghyswllt gwasanaethau a roddwyd o angenrheidrwydd a threuliau yr aethpwyd iddynt o angenrheidrwydd er mwyn cynnal yr etholiad hwn yn effeithlon ac yn effeithiol yn yr ardal yr wyf yn gyfrifol amdani, yn gywir hyd eithaf fy ngwybodaeth a'm cred.”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2011/676/regulation/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:51:20.852183+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}