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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/senedd-cymru-representation-of-the-people-order-2025/article-62",
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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/62",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "62",
  "heading": "Duty of returning officer to forward returns and declarations to the Electoral Commission",
  "text": "Where the returning officer receives any return or declaration under article 47, 54, 55 or 56, the returning officer must as soon as reasonably practicable after receiving the return or declaration, deliver a copy of it to the Electoral Commission and, if so requested by the Electoral Commission, the returning officer must also deliver to them a copy of any accompanying documents.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Art. 62 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/62",
    "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."
}