{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/senedd-cymru-representation-of-the-people-order-2025/article-8",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/senedd-cymru-representation-of-the-people-order-2025/article-8.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/8",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": "Absent voters lists at Senedd elections",
  "text": "(1) In respect of each Senedd election, the registration officer must keep two special lists—\n(a) the postal voters list, and\n(b) the list of proxies.\n(2) The postal voters list is a list of—\n(a) those persons who are for the time being shown in the record kept under article 6 as voting by post at Senedd elections, excluding those whose applications under article 7(4)(b) to vote by proxy at the election have been granted, and\n(b) those persons whose applications under article 7(1) to vote by post at the election have been granted,\ntogether with the addresses provided by them in their applications under article 6 or 7(4)(a) as the addresses to which their ballot papers are to be sent.\n(3) The list of proxies is a list of those who are for the time being shown in the record kept under article 6 as voting by proxy at Senedd elections, or whose applications under article 7(2) to vote by proxy at the election have been granted, together with the names and addresses of those appointed as their proxies.\n(4) In the case of a person who has an anonymous entry in the register, the postal voters list or list of proxies must show in relation to that person only—\n(a) their electoral number, and\n(b) the period for which the anonymous entry has effect.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Art. 8 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/8",
    "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."
}