{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/senedd-cymru-representation-of-the-people-order-2025/article-139",
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  "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/139",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "139",
  "heading": "Forms: general",
  "text": "(1) The forms set out in this Order, apart from the ballot paper to be used at elections set out in Schedule 10, may be used with such variations as the circumstances may require.\n(2) Without prejudice to the power conferred by paragraph (1), where any form to which that paragraph applies is set out in English first and then in Welsh, that form may be varied so that—\n(a) the Welsh and English parts are combined, or\n(b) it is set out in Welsh first and then in English.\n(3) Where any person is required to complete a form referred to in paragraph (2), such form may be validly completed in either the Welsh or English parts.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Art. 139 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/139",
    "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."
}