{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/senedd-cymru-representation-of-the-people-order-2025/article-42",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/senedd-cymru-representation-of-the-people-order-2025/article-42.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/42",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "42",
  "heading": "Effect of default in election agent’s appointment",
  "text": "(1) If no person’s name and address is given as required by article 39 as the election agent of an individual candidate who remains validly nominated at the latest time for delivery of notices of withdrawal of candidature, the candidate is at that time deemed—\n(a) to have been named as the election agent, and\n(b) to have revoked any appointment of another person as the candidate’s election agent.\n(2) If no person’s name and address is given as required by article 39 as the election agent of a registered political party which has submitted a party list at the latest time for delivery of notices of withdrawal of candidature—\n(a) the candidate whose name appears first on the party’s list is at that time deemed to have been named as election agent, and\n(b) any appointment of another person as that party’s election agent is deemed to have been revoked.\n(3) This paragraph applies if—\n(a) the person whose name and address has been given as the election agent for an individual candidate, not being the candidate, or for a registered political party dies, and\n(b) a new appointment is not made on the day of the death or on the following day.\n(4) Where paragraph (3) applies—\n(a) in the case of the death of an election agent for an individual candidate, the candidate is deemed to be appointed as from the time of death, and\n(b) in the case of the death of an election agent for a registered political party that has submitted a party list—\n(i) the candidate whose name appears first on the list is deemed to have been appointed from the time of death, or\n(ii) where paragraph (3) applies through the death of such a candidate, the candidate whose name appears next highest on the list is deemed to have been appointed from the time of death.\n(5) If the appointment of an election agent is revoked without a new appointment being made—\n(a) in the case of an individual candidate, the candidate is deemed to have been appointed, or re-appointed, as the election agent, and\n(b) in the case of a registered political party that has submitted a party list, the candidate whose name appears first on that party’s list is deemed to have been appointed, or re-appointed, as the election agent.\n(6) The deemed appointment of an election agent may be revoked as if it were an actual appointment.\n(7) Where a candidate is by virtue of this article to be treated as an election agent, the office of the candidate is deemed to be the address as given for that purpose in the candidate’s consent to nomination under rule 9 of Schedule 5.\n(8) The returning officer, on being satisfied that a person is by virtue of this article to be treated as an election agent, must immediately give notice as if the name and address of the person and the address of the person’s office had been given to the returning officer under articles 39 and 41.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Art. 42 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/42",
    "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."
}