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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-assembly-for-wales-returning-officers-charges-order-2006/article-2",
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  "legislation": "wsi/2006/3268",
  "legislation_title": "The National Assembly for Wales (Returning Officers' Charges) Order 2006",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-assembly-for-wales-returning-officers-charges-order-2006",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "In this Order —\n“the Assembly” (“y Cynulliad”) means the National Assembly for Wales;\n“Assembly constituency” (“etholaeth Cynulliad”) and “Assembly electoral region” (“rhanbarth etholiadol Cynulliad”) are to be construed in accordance with section 2(2) of, and Schedule 1 to, the Government of Wales Act 1998;\n“Assembly election” (“etholiad Cynulliad”) means a constituency election or a regional election;\n“constituency election” (“etholiad etholaeth”) means an election to return an Assembly member for an Assembly constituency;\n“constituency returning officer” (swyddog canlyniadau etholaeth”) means the person who is the returning officer for a constituency election;\n“ordinary election” (“etholiad cyffredin”) means the holding of constituency elections and regional elections for the return of all Assembly members;\n“poll clerk” (“clerc pleidleisio”) means a person appointed by the constituency returning officer to assist the presiding officer in the conduct of an election at a polling station;\n“presiding officer” (“swyddog llywyddu”) means the person appointed by the constituency returning officer to supervise a polling station;\n“regional election” (“etholiad rhanbarthol”) means an election to return Assembly members for an Assembly electoral region;\n“regional returning officer” (“swyddog canlyniadau rhanbarthol”) means the person who is the returning officer for a regional election;\n“the 2003 Order” (“Gorchymyn 2003”) means the National Assembly for Wales (Representation of the People) Order 2003; 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/wsi/2006/3268/article/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T00:02:15.425708+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."
}