# The Senedd Cymru (Representation of the People) Order 2025, Article 81: Bribery

Extent: E+W

(1) A person is guilty of a corrupt practice if that person is guilty of bribery.
(2) A person (“P1”) is guilty of bribery if P1, directly or indirectly—
(a) gives any money or procures any office—
(i) to or for any voter,
(ii) to or for any other person on behalf of any voter, or
(iii) to or for any other person,
in order to induce any voter to vote or refrain from voting,
(b) corruptly does any act mentioned in sub-paragraph (a) on account of any voter having voted or refrained from voting, or
(c) makes any gift or procures any office as mentioned in sub-paragraph (a) to or for any person in order to induce that person to procure, or endeavour to procure, a particular result at a Senedd election or the vote of any voter.
(3) A person (“P2”) is also guilty of bribery if upon, or in consequence of, a gift or the procurement of any office as mentioned in paragraph (2), P2 procures or engages, promises or endeavours to procure a particular result at a Senedd election or the vote of any voter.
(4) For the purposes of paragraph (2)—
(a) references to giving money include references to giving, lending, agreeing to give or lend, offering, promising, or promising to procure or endeavour to procure any money or valuable consideration, and
(b) references to procuring any office include references to giving, procuring, agreeing to give or procure, offering, promising, or promising to procure or to endeavour to procure any office, place or employment.
(5) A person (“P3”) is guilty of bribery if P3—
(a) advances or pays or causes to be paid any money to or for the use of any other person with the intent that that money or any part of it will be expended in bribery at a Senedd election, or
(b) knowingly pays or causes to be paid any money to any person in discharge or repayment of any money wholly or in part expended in bribery at a Senedd election.
(6) Paragraphs (2) to (5) will not extend or be construed to extend to any money paid or agreed to be paid for or on account of any legal expenses incurred in good faith at or concerning a Senedd election.
(7) A voter is guilty of bribery if before or during a Senedd election that voter, directly or indirectly, receives, agrees, or contracts for any money, gift, loan or valuable consideration, office, place or employment for that voter or for any other person, for voting or agreeing to vote or for refraining or agreeing to refrain from voting.
(8) A person (“P4”) is guilty of bribery if after a Senedd election P4, directly or indirectly, receives any money or valuable consideration on account of any person having voted or refrained from voting or having induced any other person to vote or refrain from voting.
(9) In this article the expression “voter” includes any person who has or claims to have a right to vote.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2025/864/article/81 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/senedd-cymru-representation-of-the-people-order-2025/article-81
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