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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/senedd-cymru-representation-of-the-people-order-2025/article-78",
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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/78",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "78",
  "heading": "Printer’s name and address on election publications",
  "text": "(1) Subject to paragraph (2), this article applies to any material which can reasonably be regarded as intended to promote or procure a particular result at a Senedd election, whether or not it can be regarded as intended to achieve any other purpose as well.\n(2) This article does not apply to material to which section 143 of the 2000 Political Parties Act (details to appear on election material) applies.\n(3) Material to which this article applies may only be published—\n(a) in the case of material which is, or is contained in, a document mentioned in paragraph (5), (6) or (7), if it complies with the requirements of the relevant paragraph, or\n(b) in the case of any other material, if it complies with any requirements which must be complied with in relation to the material by virtue of regulations under paragraph (8).\n(4) For the purposes of paragraphs (5) to (7), the following details are “the relevant details” in the case of any material falling within paragraph (3)(a)—\n(a) the name and address of the printer of the document,\n(b) the name and address of the promoter of the material, and\n(c) the name and address of any person on behalf of whom the material is being published, and who is not the promoter.\n(5) Where the material is a document consisting, or consisting principally, of a single side of printed matter, the relevant details must appear on the face of the document.\n(6) Where the material is a printed document other than one to which paragraph (5) applies, the relevant details must appear either on the first or the last page of the document.\n(7) Where the material is an advertisement contained in a newspaper or periodical—\n(a) the name and address of the printer of the newspaper or periodical must appear either on its first or last page, and\n(b) the relevant details specified in paragraph (4)(b) and (c) must be included in the advertisement.\n(8) After consulting the Electoral Commission, the Welsh Ministers may make provision by regulations for and in connection with the imposition of requirements as to the inclusion in material falling within paragraph (3)(b) of the following details, namely—\n(a) the name and address of the promoter of the material, and\n(b) the name and address of any person on behalf of whom the material is being published, and who is not the promoter.\n(9) Regulations under paragraph (8) may in particular specify—\n(a) the manner and form in which such details must be included in any such material for the purpose of complying with any such requirement;\n(b) circumstances in which—\n(i) any such requirement does not have to be complied with by any person of any description specified in the regulations, or\n(ii) a breach of any such requirement by a person of any description so specified is not to result in the commission of an offence under this article by that person or by a person of any other description;\n(c) circumstances in which material is, or is not, to be taken for the purposes of the regulations to be published, or published by a person of any description so specified.\n(10) Where any material within paragraph (3)(a) is published in contravention of paragraph (3), then, subject to paragraphs (12) and (13)—\n(a) the promoter of the material,\n(b) any other person by whom the material is so published, and\n(c) the printer of the document,\nis guilty of an offence and liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 5 on the standard scale.\n(11) Where any material falling within paragraph (3)(b) is published in contravention of paragraph (3), then, subject to regulations made by virtue of paragraph (9)(b) and paragraphs (12) and (13)—\n(a) the promoter of the material, and\n(b) any other person by whom the material is so published,\nis guilty of an offence and liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 5 on the standard scale.\n(12) It will be a defence for a person charged with an offence under this article to prove that—\n(a) the contravention of paragraph (3) arose from circumstances beyond that person’s reasonable control, and\n(b) that person took all reasonable steps, and exercised due diligence, to ensure that the contravention would not arise.\n(13) Where—\n(a) an individual candidate or the candidate’s election agent, or\n(b) a party list candidate or the election agent of the registered political party in relation to that party’s list,\nwould, apart from this paragraph, be guilty of an offence under paragraph (10) or (11), that candidate or agent is instead guilty of an illegal practice.\n(14) The power to make regulations under paragraph (8) is—\n(a) exercisable by statutory instrument, and\n(b) subject to annulment in pursuance of a resolution of the Senedd.\n(15) For the purposes of section 1 of the Statutory Instruments Act 1946, paragraph (14) has effect as if contained in an Act of the Senedd.\n(16) For the purpose of determining whether any material constitutes material falling within the remit of paragraph (1), it is immaterial that it does not expressly mention the name of any candidate.\n(17) In this article—\n“print” (“argraffu”) means print by whatever means;\n“the promoter” (“yr hyrwyddwr”) in relation to any material to which this article applies, means the person causing the material to be published;\n“publish” (“cyhoeddi”) means to make available to the public at large, or any section of the public, in whatever form and by whatever means.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Art. 78 in force at 18.7.2025, see art. 1(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Section 143 was amended by section 66 of the Electoral Administration Act 2006 (c. 22) and section 26(11) of the Transparency of Lobbying, Non-Party Campaigning and Trade Union Administration Act 2014 (c. 4)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2025/864/article/78",
    "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."
}