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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/senedd-cymru-representation-of-the-people-order-2025/article-87",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/senedd-cymru-representation-of-the-people-order-2025/article-87.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/87",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "87",
  "heading": "Method of questioning Senedd election",
  "text": "(1) A Senedd election or return may be questioned only by presenting a petition (“a Senedd election petition”) in accordance with this Part.\n(2) A Senedd election petition may complain of an—\n(a) undue election, or\n(b) undue return.\n(3) A complaint relating to a relevant vacancy in a constituency falls within the remit of paragraph (2)(b).\n(4) A Senedd election petition complaining of no return will be considered by the High Court which may—\n(a) make such order on the petition as they think appropriate for compelling a return to be made, or\n(b) allow the petition to be heard by an election court.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Art. 87 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/87",
    "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."
}