{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/senedd-cymru-representation-of-the-people-order-2025/article-73",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/senedd-cymru-representation-of-the-people-order-2025/article-73.json",
  "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/73",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "73",
  "heading": "Officials not to act for candidates",
  "text": "(1) This article applies to any person who is—\n(a) a returning officer,\n(b) a person appointed under article 20 (returning officers: discharge of functions),\n(c) an officer or clerk appointed under Schedule 5, or\n(d) any partner or clerk of any such person,\nunless that person is a candidate.\n(2) Any person to whom this article applies who acts as an agent for a candidate or a registered political party in the conduct or management of a Senedd election, is guilty of an offence.\n(3) A person guilty of an offence under this article is liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 4 on the standard scale.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Art. 73 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/73",
    "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."
}