{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/senedd-cymru-representation-of-the-people-order-2025/article-140",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/senedd-cymru-representation-of-the-people-order-2025/article-140.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/140",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "140",
  "heading": "Public notices and declarations",
  "text": "(1) Subject to paragraph (2), a public notice required by or under this Order to be given by a returning officer at a Senedd election must be given by posting the notice—\n(a) online, and\n(b) in such other ways as the returning officer considers appropriate.\n(2) In giving public notice in accordance with paragraph (1), the returning officer must take reasonable steps to ensure that the contents of the document are brought to the attention of the public.\n(3) Where this Order authorises a declaration to be made before a person, that person may take that declaration.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Art. 140 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/140",
    "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."
}