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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/senedd-cymru-representation-of-the-people-order-2025/article-82",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/senedd-cymru-representation-of-the-people-order-2025/article-82.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/82",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "82",
  "heading": "Treating",
  "text": "(1) A person is guilty of a corrupt practice if that person is guilty of treating.\n(2) A person is guilty of treating if that person corruptly either before, during or after a Senedd election, directly or indirectly gives or provides, or pays wholly or in part the expense of giving or providing, any food, drink, entertainment or provision to or for any person—\n(a) for the purpose of corruptly influencing that person or any other person to vote or refrain from voting, or\n(b) on account of that person or any other person having voted or refrained from voting, or being about to vote or refrain from voting.\n(3) Every elector or proxy who corruptly accepts or takes any such food, drink, entertainment or provision is also guilty of treating.\n(4) In this article a reference to a thing being done by a person includes a reference to a thing being done by or on behalf of that person.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Art. 82 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/82",
    "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."
}