{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/senedd-cymru-representation-of-the-people-order-2025/article-11",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/senedd-cymru-representation-of-the-people-order-2025/article-11.json",
  "legislation": "wsi/2025/864",
  "legislation_title": "The Senedd Cymru (Representation of the People) Order 2025",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/senedd-cymru-representation-of-the-people-order-2025",
  "path": "article/11",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "11",
  "heading": "Electors’ signatures and use of personal identifier information",
  "text": "(1) An application for an absent vote or proxy postal vote made in accordance with article 6, 7, 9 or 10 must comply with paragraph 1 of Schedule 1 (relating to personal identifiers).\n(2) A person who remains on the record kept under article 6(4) or 10(6) may, at any time, provide the registration officer with a fresh signature.\n(3) Anything required or authorised to be done for the purposes of any enactment in relation to a signature required to be provided in pursuance of the absent vote provisions of this Order, must be done using a signature provided under paragraph (2) instead of in relation to a signature provided on any earlier occasion.\n(4) The registration officer must—\n(a) provide the returning officer for a Senedd election with a copy of the information contained in records kept by the registration officer in pursuance of articles 6(11), 7(7) and 10(13) in relation to electors at the elections, or\n(b) give that returning officer access to such information.\n(5) Information contained in records kept by a registration officer in pursuance of article 6(11), 7(7) or 10(13) may be disclosed by the registration officer, subject to the conditions prescribed in paragraphs 18 and 19 of Schedule 1, to—\n(a) any other registration officer (“R”) if the registration officer thinks that to do so will assist R in the performance of R’s duties;\n(b) any person exercising functions in relation to the preparation or conduct of legal proceedings under the Representation of the People Acts or this Order;\n(c) such other persons for such other purposes relating to elections as are prescribed in paragraphs 18 and 19 of Schedule 1.\n(6) For the purposes of paragraph (5)(b), the “Representation of the People Acts” are—\n(a) the Representation of the People Act 1983,\n(b) the Representation of the People Act 1985, and\n(c) the Representation of the People Act 2000.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Art. 11 in force at 18.7.2025, see art. 1(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1983 c. 2."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1985 c. 50."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "2000 c. 2."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2025/864/article/11",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T22:57:06.457930+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."
}