{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/senedd-cymru-letters-patent-and-proclamations-order-2021/schedule/part-2",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2021/141",
  "legislation_title": "The Senedd Cymru (Letters Patent and Proclamations) Order 2021",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/senedd-cymru-letters-patent-and-proclamations-order-2021",
  "path": "schedule/part/2",
  "kind": "part",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Proclamations under section 4(2) of the 2006 Act",
  "text": "“BY THE QUEEN A PROCLAMATION\nDISSOLVING SENEDD CYMRU AND SETTING THE DATE OF THE POLL AT THE SUBSEQUENT ORDINARY GENERAL ELECTION.\nWhereas, under section 4(2) of the Government of Wales Act 2006, if the Presiding Officer of Senedd Cymru proposes to Us a day for the holding of the poll at an ordinary general election for membership of the Senedd which is not more than one month earlier, nor more than one month later, than the first Thursday in May in the fifth calendar year following that in which the previous ordinary general election was held, We have power by proclamation under Our Welsh Seal to dissolve Senedd Cymru and to require the poll at the ordinary general election for membership of the Senedd to be held on the day proposed:\nAnd Whereas the said Presiding Officer has, in accordance with the said section 4(2), proposed [insert the day proposed by the Presiding Officer] as a day for the holding of the poll:\nWe, therefore, in pursuance of the said section 4(2) and of all other powers enabling Us in that behalf do hereby proclaim, direct and ordain as follows—\n1. Senedd Cymru is hereby dissolved.\n2. The poll at the ordinary general election for membership of the Senedd shall be held on [insert the day proposed by the Presiding Officer].\n3. The Keeper of Our Welsh Seal is commanded to seal this proclamation with Our Welsh Seal.\nGiven at Our Court at … this … day of… in the year of our Lord… and in the… year of Our Reign.”",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2021/141/schedule/part/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T22:17:31.063857+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."
}