{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-assembly-for-wales-returning-officers-charges-order-1999/article-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-assembly-for-wales-returning-officers-charges-order-1999/article-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1999/942",
  "legislation_title": "The National Assembly for Wales (Returning Officers' Charges) Order 1999",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-assembly-for-wales-returning-officers-charges-order-1999",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "In this Order, except where the context otherwise requires–\n“Assembly constituency” and “Assembly electoral region” are to be construed in accordance with section 2(2) of, and Schedule 1 to, the Government of Wales Act 1998,\n“Assembly election” means a constituency election or a regional election,\n“constituency election” means an election to return an Assembly member for an Assembly constituency,\n“constituency returning officer” means the person who is the returning officer for a constituency election,\n“ordinary election” means the holding of constituency and regional elections for the return of all Assembly members,\n“regional election” means an election to return Assembly members for an Assembly electoral region,\n“regional returning officer” means the person who is the returning officer for a regional election,\n“the Assembly” means the National Assembly for Wales,\n“the 1999 Order” means the National Assembly for Wales (Representation of the People) Order 1999, and\nany reference to a register of electors is a reference to the register (or registers) of electors used at an Assembly election and to the register (or registers) as first published.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1998 c. 38."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1999/942/article/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:53:31.716634+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."
}