{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/senedd-cymru-representation-of-the-people-order-2025/article-138",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/senedd-cymru-representation-of-the-people-order-2025/article-138.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/138",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "138",
  "heading": "Accessibility of certain documents",
  "text": "(1) Paragraph (2) applies to any document, apart from the nomination paper and the ballot paper, which is required or authorised by this Order to be given to voters or displayed in any place for the purpose of a Senedd election.\n(2) The person who is required or authorised to give or display the document must give, display or otherwise make available in such form as may be appropriate—\n(a) the document in Braille;\n(b) the document in languages other than Welsh and English;\n(c) graphical and audio representations of the information contained in the document;\n(d) other means of making the information contained in the document accessible to persons who might not otherwise have reasonable access to the information.\n(3) The returning officer at a Senedd election must cause to be displayed at every polling station in the election an enlarged sample copy of the ballot paper.\n(4) The sample copy mentioned in paragraph (3)—\n(a) must have printed, both at the top and immediately below the list of candidates, the words “PLEIDLEISIWCH UNWAITH YN UNIG AR Y PAPUR PLEIDLEISIO. PEIDIWCH Â RHOI UNRHYW FARC ARALL AR Y PAPUR PLEIDLEISIO NEU MAE’N BOSIBL NA CHAIFF EICH PLEIDLAIS EI CHYFRIF” and “VOTE ONLY ONCE ON THE BALLOT PAPER. PUT NO OTHER MARK ON THE BALLOT PAPER OR YOUR VOTE MAY NOT BE COUNTED”;\n(b) may include a translation, below the second occurrence of the words referred to in sub-paragraph (a), of those words into such other languages as the returning officer considers appropriate.\n(5) The returning officer at a Senedd election must provide at the polling station for which they are responsible, an enlarged hand-held sample copy of the ballot paper for the assistance of voters who are partially sighted.\n(6) The sample copy mentioned in paragraphs (3) and (5) must be clearly marked as a specimen provided only for the guidance of voters.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Art. 138 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/138",
    "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."
}