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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/parliamentary-elections-welsh-forms-order-2007/article-6",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2007/1014",
  "legislation_title": "The Parliamentary Elections (Welsh Forms) Order 2007",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/parliamentary-elections-welsh-forms-order-2007",
  "path": "article/6",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "6",
  "heading": "Welsh and English versions of prescribed forms and a form of words",
  "text": "Each of the forms listed in sub-paragraphs (a) to (s) and set out in Schedule 2 to this Order is hereby prescribed as the version partly in Welsh and partly in English which shall be used at a parliamentary election in Wales in place of—\n(a) in the case of form 1, the form of back of ballot paper prescribed in the Appendix to Schedule 1 to the 1983 Act;\n(b) in the case of form 2, the form of directions for the guidance of voters in voting prescribed in the Appendix to Schedule 1 to the 1983 Act;\n(c) in the case of form 3, the notice prescribed by rule 29(5) (voting compartment notice) in Schedule 1 to the 1983 Act;\n(d) in the case of form 4, the form of directions for guidance of voters in voting prescribed in paragraph 28 of Schedule 2 to the Representation of the People (Combination of Polls) (England and Wales) Regulations 2004;\n(e) in the case of form 5, form A (official poll card) in Schedule 3 to the 2001 Regulations;\n(f) in the case of form 6, form A1 (official postal poll card) in Schedule 3 to the 2001 Regulations;\n(g) in the case of form 7, form B (official proxy poll card) in Schedule 3 to the 2001 Regulations;\n(h) in the case of form 8, form B1 (official proxy postal poll card) in Schedule 3 to the 2001 Regulations;\n(i) in the case of form 9, form C (return of expenses required by section 75 of the 1983 Act) in Schedule 3 to the 2001 Regulations;\n(j) in the case of form 10, form D (declaration as to expenses required by section 75 of the 1983 Act) in Schedule 3 to the 2001 Regulations,\n(k) in the case of form 11, form E (proxy paper) in Schedule 3 to the 2001 Regulations.\n(l) in the case of form 12, form G (postal voting statement) in Schedule 3 to the 2001 Regulations;\n(m) in the case of form 13, form H (postal voting statement – combined poll, joint issue) in Schedule 3 to the 2001 Regulations;\n(n) in the case of form 14, form J (postal voting statement – combined poll, separate issue) in Schedule 3 to the 2001 Regulations;\n(o) in the case of form 15, form K (statement as to postal ballot papers) in Schedule 3 to the 2001 Regulations;\n(p) in the case of form 16, form L1 (corresponding number list) in Schedule 3 to the 2001 Regulations;\n(q) in the case of form 17, form L2 (corresponding number list) in Schedule 3 to the 2001 Regulations;\n(r) in the case of form 18, form M1 (corresponding number list – combined election) in Schedule 3 to the 2001 Regulations; and\n(s) in the case of form 19, form M2 (corresponding number list - combined election) in Schedule 3 to the 2001 Regulations.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1983 c.2; the form of back of ballot paper was amended by section 31 of, and paragraph 74 of Schedule 2 to, the Electoral Administration Act 2006 (c.22)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1983 c.2: the form of directions for the guidance of voters in voting was substituted by the Electoral Administration Act 2006 (c.22)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "1983 c.2; rule 29(5) was amended by Schedule 4 to the Representation of the of the People Act 1985 (c. 50)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f4",
      "text": "S.I. 2004/294; paragraph 28 was substituted by regulation 4(12) of S.I. 2006/3298."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f5",
      "text": "S.I. 2001/341; forms A and B were substituted and forms A1 and B2 were inserted by 2006 S.I. 2006/2910."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f6",
      "text": "S.I. 2001/341; forms G, H and J were substituted by S.I. 2006/2910."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f7",
      "text": "S.I. 2001/341; form K was substituted by S.I. 2006/2910."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f8",
      "text": "S.I. 2001/341; forms L1, L2, M1 and M2 were substituted by S.I. 2006/2910."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "art. 6 renumbered as art. 6(1)",
      "affecting": "uksi/2015/803",
      "affecting_title": "The Parliamentary Elections (Welsh Forms) (Amendment) Order 2015"
    },
    {
      "type": "inserted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2015/803",
      "affecting_title": "The Parliamentary Elections (Welsh Forms) (Amendment) Order 2015"
    },
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      "type": "inserted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2015/803",
      "affecting_title": "The Parliamentary Elections (Welsh Forms) (Amendment) Order 2015"
    },
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      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2023/208",
      "affecting_title": "The Parliamentary Elections (Welsh Forms) (Amendment) Order 2023"
    },
    {
      "type": "word substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2023/208",
      "affecting_title": "The Parliamentary Elections (Welsh Forms) (Amendment) Order 2023"
    },
    {
      "type": "word substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2023/1137",
      "affecting_title": "The Parliamentary Elections and Recall Petition (Welsh Forms) (Amendment) Order 2023"
    },
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2023/1305",
      "affecting_title": "The Parliamentary Elections and Recall Petition (Welsh Forms) (Amendment) (No. 2) Order 2023"
    },
    {
      "type": "inserted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2022/1402",
      "affecting_title": "The Parliamentary Elections (Welsh Forms) (Amendment) Order 2022"
    }
  ],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2007/1014/article/6",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T03:56:26.111542+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."
}