{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/senedd-cymru-representation-of-the-people-order-2025/article-45",
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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/45",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "45",
  "heading": "Individual and party list candidates: expenses which may be paid otherwise than by an election agent",
  "text": "(1) During the regulated period, a party list candidate at a Senedd election (“P”) may pay any personal expenses incurred by P on account of or in connection with or incidental to the election, but the amount which P may pay must not exceed £900, and any further personal expenses incurred by P must be paid by the treasurer of the registered political party on whose party list P is included as a party list candidate.\n(2) During the regulated period, an individual candidate at a Senedd election (“C”) may pay any personal expenses incurred by C on account of or in connection with or incidental to the election, but the amount which C may pay must not exceed £900, and any further personal expenses incurred by C must be paid by C’s election agent.\n(3) C may also pay any election expenses, other than personal expenses falling within paragraph (2), which were incurred by C or on C’s behalf and in respect of which payment falls to be made before the date on which C appoints, or is deemed to have appointed, an election agent.\n(4) C must send to the election agent within the time permitted by this Order for sending in claims (see article 51), a written statement of the amount of expenses paid as mentioned in paragraph (2) or (3) by C.\n(5) Subject to paragraph (6), any person may, if so authorised in writing by C’s election agent, at a Senedd election pay any necessary expenses of stationery, postage, telephonic communication, or any other similar means of communication, and other petty expenses, to a total amount not exceeding that named in the authority.\n(6) Any amount to be paid in respect of the matters included within paragraph (5) which is in excess of the amount named in the authority, must be paid by C’s election agent.\n(7) A statement of the particulars of payments made under paragraph (5) by any person authorised must be sent to C’s election agent within the time permitted by this Order for sending in claims, and must be evidenced by a bill containing that person’s receipt.\n(8) Articles 51 and 52 do not apply to expenses which, in accordance with any provision of this article, are paid otherwise than by C’s election agent.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in art. 45(1) inserted (24.3.2026) by The Representation of the People (Absent Voting and Miscellaneous Amendments) (Wales) Regulations 2026 (W.S.I. 2026/91), regs. 1(2), 41(1)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in art. 45(2) inserted (24.3.2026) by The Representation of the People (Absent Voting and Miscellaneous Amendments) (Wales) Regulations 2026 (W.S.I. 2026/91), regs. 1(2), 41(1)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in art. 45(3) substituted (24.3.2026) by The Representation of the People (Absent Voting and Miscellaneous Amendments) (Wales) Regulations 2026 (W.S.I. 2026/91), regs. 1(2), 41(1)(c)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Art. 45 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/45",
    "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."
}