Article 85 Savings as to Senedd electionI1

England and Wales

(1)

Where a person has been declared by others to be a candidate at a Senedd election without that person’s consent, nothing in this Part is to be construed to impose any liability on that person, unless that person has afterwards given assent to the declaration or has been nominated.

(2)

Subject to paragraph (3), nothing in this Part makes it illegal for an employer to permit electors at Senedd elections or their proxies to absent themselves from the employer’s employment for a reasonable time for the purpose of voting at the poll at a Senedd election without having any deduction from their salaries or wage on account of their absence, if the permission—

(a)

is, so far as practicable without injury to the employer’s business, given equally to all persons alike who are at the time in the employer’s employment,

(b)

is not given with a view to inducing any person to vote in a particular way at the election, and

(c)

is not refused to any person for the purpose of preventing that person from voting in a particular way at the election.

(3)

Paragraph (2) is not to be construed as making illegal any act which would not be illegal apart from that paragraph.

Annotations

Commencement

I1: Art. 85 in force at 18.7.2025, see art. 1(2)