# The Senedd Cymru (Representation of the People) Order 2025, Article 67: Right to send election address post free

Extent: E+W

(1) At a Senedd election, each individual candidate or registered nominating officer of a registered political party which has submitted a party list at that election, subject to any reasonable terms and conditions as the universal service provider concerned may specify, is entitled to send a maximum of two election communications free of any charge for postage which would otherwise be made by a universal service provider.
(2) The election communications sent under paragraph (1) may be a postal communication which—
(a) contains only matter relating to the election, and
(b) does not exceed 60 grammes.
(3) The election communications sent under paragraph (1) may be sent—
(a) unaddressed to each place in the Senedd constituency for which the election is being held and in which the candidates stand nominated which, in accordance with the terms and conditions of the universal service provider, constitutes a delivery point for the purposes of this article, or
(b) addressed to each elector.
(4) Any individual candidate or registered nominating officer is also, subject to the condition in paragraph (2), entitled to send, free of any charge for postage as is mentioned in paragraph (1), to each person entered in the list of proxies for the election, two communications for each appointment in respect of which that person is so entered.
(5) Any individual candidate or registered nominating officer may require the returning officer to make arrangements with the universal service provider for communications under paragraph (3)(b) to be sent to persons who have anonymous entries in the register.
(6) Arrangements under paragraph (5) must ensure that it is not disclosed to any other person that the addressee of such a communication has an anonymous entry.
(7) Subject to paragraph (8), in relation to an individual candidate, a person will not be deemed to be a candidate for the purposes of this article unless that person is shown as standing nominated in the statement of parties and persons nominated (see rule 17 of Schedule 5).
(8) Until the publication of the statement of parties and persons nominated, any person who declares themself to be an individual candidate will be entitled to exercise the right of free postage conferred by this article, if that person gives any security as may be required by the universal service provider concerned for the payment of postage, should that person not be shown as standing nominated as mentioned above.
(9) Subject to paragraph (10), a registered political party will not be deemed to have submitted a party list for the purposes of this article, unless the party is shown as standing nominated in the statement of parties and persons nominated.
(10) Until the publication of the statement of parties and persons nominated, the registered nominating officer of a party which has submitted a party list will be entitled to exercise the right of free postage conferred by this article, if that registered nominating officer gives any security as may be required by the universal service provider, should the party not be shown as standing nominated as mentioned above.
(11) The returning officer is entitled to treat any purported exercise by the registered nominating officer of a registered political party of the right of free postage conferred by this article through the party election agent, as a valid exercise of that right.
(12) A universal service provider who provides a postal service free of charge pursuant to this article is entitled to be remunerated for that service at the rate determined by or in accordance with a scheme made under section 89 of the Postal Services Act 2000, and the amount of that remuneration must be paid by the Welsh Ministers.
(13) The sums payable by the Welsh Ministers under paragraph (12) must be charged on the Welsh Consolidated Fund.
(14) For the purposes of this article, “elector”—
(a) means a person who is registered in the register of electors for the Senedd constituency on the last day for publication of notice of the election, and
(b) includes a person then shown in that register or, in the case of a person who has an anonymous entry in the register, in the record of anonymous entries, as below voting age if, but only if, it appears from the register, or from the record, that that person will be of voting age on the day fixed for the poll.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2025/864/article/67 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/senedd-cymru-representation-of-the-people-order-2025/article-67
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