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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/senedd-cymru-representation-of-the-people-order-2025/article-44",
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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/44",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "44",
  "heading": "Individual candidates: payment of expenses by or through election agent",
  "text": "(1) Subject to paragraph (4), no payment is to be made by—\n(a) an individual candidate at a Senedd election, or\n(b) any other person,\nin respect of election expenses incurred by or on behalf of the candidate unless it is made by or through the candidate’s election agent.\n(2) Every payment made by an election agent in respect of any election expenses must, except where less than £20, be evidenced by a bill stating the particulars or by a receipt.\n(3) The references in paragraphs (1) and (2) to an election agent are to be taken as references to the election agent acting personally or by a sub-agent.\n(4) This article does not apply to—\n(a) any expenses which are paid by the candidate in accordance with article 45(2) or (3) (expenses which may be paid otherwise than by an election agent), 51(9) (expenses paid in pursuance of an order of leave of a court) or 52(4) (expenses paid in relation to a disputed claim),\n(b) any expenses which are paid in accordance with article 45(5) (expenses paid in relation to stationery etc.) by a person authorised as mentioned in that provision,\n(c) any expenses included in a declaration made by the election agent under article 46(2) (expenses incurred otherwise than for election purposes),\n(d) any expenses incurred on account of any matter falling within article 47 (prohibition of expenses not authorised by election agent etc.) by a person authorised as mentioned in that provision, or\n(e) any election expenses which are regarded as incurred by or on behalf of the candidate by virtue of article 48(2).\n(5) A person who makes any payment in contravention of paragraph (1) is guilty of an illegal practice.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Art. 44 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/44",
    "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."
}