{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/senedd-cymru-representation-of-the-people-order-2025/article-13",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/senedd-cymru-representation-of-the-people-order-2025/article-13.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/13",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "13",
  "heading": "Other offences relating to absent voting",
  "text": "(1) A person (“P”) is guilty of an offence if P—\n(a) engages in a relevant act specified in paragraph (2) at a Senedd election, and\n(b) intends, by doing so, to—\n(i) deprive another of an opportunity to vote,\n(ii) make for P or another, a gain of a vote to which P or the other is not otherwise entitled, or\n(iii) make for P or another, a gain of money or property.\n(2) The relevant acts are—\n(a) applying for a postal or a proxy vote as some other person, whether that other person is living or dead or is a fictitious person,\n(b) otherwise making a false statement in, or in connection with, an application for a postal or a proxy vote,\n(c) inducing the registration officer to send a postal ballot paper, or any communication relating to a postal or a proxy vote, to an address which has not been agreed to by the person entitled to the vote,\n(d) causing a communication relating to a postal or a proxy vote, or containing a postal ballot paper, not to be delivered to the intended recipient, and\n(e) those acts listed at article 31.\n(3) In paragraph (1)(b)(iii), property includes any description of property.\n(4) In paragraph (2), a reference to a postal vote or a postal ballot paper includes a reference to a proxy postal vote or a proxy postal ballot paper.\n(5) A person who is guilty of an offence under paragraph (1) or who aids, abets, counsels or procures the commission of such an offence is guilty of a corrupt practice and is liable on conviction in accordance with article 121.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Art. 13 in force at 18.7.2025, see art. 1(2)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2025/864/article/13",
    "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."
}