{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/senedd-cymru-representation-of-the-people-order-2025/article-37",
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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/37",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "37",
  "heading": "Interpretation of Part 3",
  "text": "(1) In this Part—\n“candidate” (“ymgeisydd”) is to be construed in accordance with paragraph (2);\n“disputed claim” (“hawliad y mae anghydfod yn ei gylch”) has the meaning given by article 52(1) as extended by article 53;\n“for the purposes of the candidate’s election” (“at ddibenion ethol yr ymgeisydd”) means with a view to, or otherwise in connection with, promoting or procuring the candidate’s election at the election;\n“regulated period” (“cyfnod rheoleiddiedig”) has the meaning given by article 49;\n“return as to election expenses” (“ffurflen ynghylch treuliau etholiad”) means a return (including the bills and receipts to be delivered with it) to be made under article 54.\n(2) A person (“P”) becomes a candidate in relation to a Senedd general election—\n(a) on the date of the dissolution of the Senedd if on or before that day P is declared, either by P or others, to be a candidate at the election, or\n(b) otherwise, the day on which—\n(i) P is declared, by P or others, as a candidate at the election, or\n(ii) P is nominated as a candidate at the election,\nwhichever is the earlier.\n(3) Matters included as personal expenses are—\n(a) travelling expenses;\n(b) expenses of living at hotels or elsewhere.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Art. 37 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/37",
    "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."
}