# The Senedd Cymru (Representation of the People) Order 2025, Article 26: Effect of registers

Extent: E+W

(1) Any entry in the register of electors, if it gives a date as that on which the person named will attain voting age, will, for any purpose of this Part relating to the person as elector, be conclusive that until the date given in the entry, that person is not of voting age nor entitled to be treated as an elector except for the purposes of a Senedd election at which the date fixed for the poll is that or a later date.
(2) Subject to paragraph (3), a person registered as a local government elector, or entered in the list of proxies, must not be excluded from voting at a Senedd election on any of the grounds set out in paragraph (5).
(3) Paragraph (2) does not prevent the rejection of the vote on a scrutiny, or affect the person’s liability to any penalty for voting.
(4) Paragraph (2) does not prevent the rejection of a person’s vote if that vote is challenged in accordance with Part 4 of this Order, or affect that person’s liability to any penalty for voting.
(5) The grounds referred to in paragraph (2) are that the person—
(a) is not of voting age,
(b) is not, or on the relevant date or the date of the person’s appointment, was not—
(i) a qualifying Commonwealth citizen,
(ii) a qualifying foreign citizen,
(iii) a citizen of the Republic of Ireland, or
(iv) a relevant citizen of the Union, or
(c) is, or on the relevant date or the date of the person’s appointment was, otherwise subject to any other legal incapacity to vote.
(6) In paragraph (5), the “relevant date” means the relevant date for the purposes of section 4 of the 1983 Act.
(7) Paragraph (1) applies to an entry in the record of anonymous entries as it applies to an entry in the register of electors.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2025/864/article/26 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/senedd-cymru-representation-of-the-people-order-2025/article-26
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