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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/senedd-cymru-representation-of-the-people-order-2025/article-14",
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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/14",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "14",
  "heading": "Absent voting at Senedd elections: miscellaneous",
  "text": "(1) Section 59 of the 1983 Act (supplemental provisions as to members of forces and service voters) applies for the purposes of a Senedd election subject to the following modifications—\n(a) in subsection (3) (right to register and vote in person, by post or by proxy), “this Act” is to be construed as including a reference to this Order in connection with the rights conferred by this Order on a person having a service qualification by virtue of section 14(1)(a) or (b) of that Act (service qualification as a member of the forces or being employed in the service of the Crown in a post outside the United Kingdom of any prescribed class or description) in relation to the making and cancellation of appointments of a proxy, and in relation to voting in person, by post or by proxy, and\n(b) in subsection (3A) (right of members of forces and service voters to information about their right to vote), “this Act and any regulations made under it” is to be construed as including a reference to this Order.\n(2) Schedule 1 makes further provision in connection with absent voting at Senedd elections.\n(3) Schedule 2 makes further provision in connection with the issue and receipt of postal ballot papers.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Art. 14 in force at 18.7.2025, see art. 1(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Section 59 was amended by section 1 of the Representation of the People Act 1993 (c. 29); section 8 of, and paragraphs 1 and 16 of Schedule 1 to, the Representation of the People Act 2000 (c. 2); and section 13 of the Electoral Administration Act 2006 (c. 22)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2025/864/article/14",
    "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."
}