{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/senedd-cymru-representation-of-the-people-order-2025/article-55",
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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/55",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "55",
  "heading": "Individual candidates: declaration as to election expenses",
  "text": "(1) Each return delivered under article 54(1) must be accompanied by a declaration made by the individual candidate’s election agent in form 27 set out in Welsh and English in Schedule 10.\n(2) At the same time as the election agent delivers that return, or within 7 days of the return being delivered, each individual candidate must deliver to the returning officer a declaration made by the candidate in form 28 set out in Welsh and English in Schedule 10.\n(3) Where an individual candidate is out of the United Kingdom when the return is delivered—\n(a) the declaration required by paragraph (2) may be made by the candidate within 14 days after the candidate’s return to the United Kingdom, and\n(b) in that case, the declaration must be immediately delivered to the returning officer.\n(4) The delay in making the declaration authorised by paragraph (3) will not exonerate the election agent from complying with the provisions of this Order relating to the return and declaration as to election expenses.\n(5) Where an individual candidate is also acting as election agent, the declaration by the election agent as to the election expenses need not be made and the declaration by the individual candidate as to election expenses must be modified as specified in form 28 set out in Welsh and English in Schedule 10.\n(6) An individual candidate or election agent who knowingly makes the declaration required by this article falsely is guilty of a corrupt practice.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Art. 55 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/55",
    "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."
}