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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/senedd-cymru-representation-of-the-people-order-2025/article-41",
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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/41",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "41",
  "heading": "Office of election agent and sub-agent",
  "text": "(1) Every election agent and every sub-agent must have an office to which all claims, notices, legal processes and other documents may be sent, and the address of the office must be—\n(a) declared to the returning officer when the appointment of the election agent or sub-agent is declared to the returning officer, and\n(b) stated in the public notice under article 39(11) or 40(4).\n(2) Paragraph (3) applies where—\n(a) in accordance with article 39(1) or (3), a candidate is named as election agent,\n(b) the home address form accompanying that candidate’s nomination paper contains a statement under rule 8(4) of Schedule 5 that the candidate’s home address must not be made public, and\n(c) the office address that is required to be declared under paragraph (1) is also the candidate’s home address.\n(3) If the candidate, in their capacity as election agent, does not want the office address to be included in the public notice under article 39(11), the candidate must, in addition to declaring the office address, provide the returning officer with another address in England or Wales to be used for correspondence (“a correspondence address”).\n(4) Where the candidate, in their capacity as election agent, provides a correspondence address under paragraph (3)—\n(a) the office address must not be included in the public notice under article 39(11), and\n(b) the correspondence address must be included instead.\n(5) The office of an election agent must be—\n(a) in the Senedd constituency in which the candidate the agent represents is standing or an adjoining Senedd constituency, or\n(b) in a county or county borough which is partly comprised in or adjoins the Senedd constituency in which the candidate the agent represents is standing.\n(6) The office of a sub-agent must be in the area within which the sub-agent is appointed to act.\n(7) Any claim, notice, legal process or other document delivered at the office of the election agent or sub-agent, or delivered to a correspondence address provided under paragraph (3), and addressed to the election agent or sub-agent, is deemed to have been served on the election agent or sub-agent.\n(8) Every election agent or sub-agent may, in respect of any matter connected with the election in which the election agent or sub-agent is acting, be sued in any court having jurisdiction at the place where the election agent’s or sub-agent’s office is situated.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Art. 41 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/41",
    "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."
}