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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/senedd-cymru-representation-of-the-people-order-2025/article-17",
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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/17",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "17",
  "heading": "Rules for Senedd elections",
  "text": "(1) The proceedings at Senedd elections, including the return of Senedd members, must be conducted in accordance with the Senedd election rules set out in Schedule 5.\n(2) In addition to the functions otherwise conferred or imposed on a returning officer at a Senedd election, it is the general duty of such an officer to do all such acts as may be necessary for effectively conducting the election in the manner provided by those rules.\n(3) No Senedd election is to be declared invalid due to any act or omission by a returning officer, or any other person, which is either in breach of that returning officer’s official duty in connection with the election, or in breach of those rules, if it appears to the tribunal considering the matter in question that—\n(a) the election was so conducted as to be substantially in accordance with the law as to Senedd elections, and\n(b) the act or omission did not affect the result.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Art. 17 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/17",
    "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."
}