{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/senedd-cymru-constituency-regulations-2025/regulation-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/senedd-cymru-constituency-regulations-2025/regulation-5.json",
  "legislation": "wsi/2025/709",
  "legislation_title": "The Senedd Cymru Constituency Regulations 2025",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/senedd-cymru-constituency-regulations-2025",
  "path": "regulation/5",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Electoral Registers",
  "text": "Each electoral registration officer must re-arrange or adapt the register of local government electors maintained under section 9(1)(b) and (5A) of the Representation of People Act 1983, as required to give effect to these Regulations.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "As appointed in accordance with section 8(2A) of the Representation of the People Act 1983 (c. 2). Section 8 was amended by section 66(6) and (8) and paragraph 68(1) of Schedule 16 to the Local Government (Wales) Act 1994 (c. 19) to insert provisions regarding the appointment of electoral registration officers in Wales."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "This provision was amended by section 8(a) and paragraph 3 of Schedule 1 to the Representation of the People Act 2000 (c. 2)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "Section 9(5A) of the Representation of the People Act 1983 was inserted by section 23 of the Senedd and Elections (Wales) Act 2020 (anaw 1) and requires electoral registration officers to maintain specific records of electors aged 16 or 17."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f4",
      "text": "1983 c. 2."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2025/709/regulation/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T22:57:27.297816+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."
}