Article 89 Presentation and service of Senedd election petitionI1

England and Wales

(1)

A Senedd election petition may be presented by one or more of the following persons—

(a)

a person who voted as an elector at the election or who had a right to vote,

(b)

a person claiming to have had a right to be elected or returned at the election,

(c)

a person alleging to have been a candidate at the election, or

(d)

a person claiming to have had a right to be returned in respect of a relevant vacancy.

(2)

Paragraph (1)(a) does not include a person who had an anonymous entry in the register of electors.

(3)

The respondent to a Senedd election petition is—

(a)

the member of the Senedd whose election or return is complained of, or

(b)

the returning officer where the petition complains of the returning officer’s conduct.

(4)

The petition must—

(a)

be in the prescribed format,

(b)

state the prescribed matters, and

(c)

be signed by all petitioners.

(5)

The petition must be presented to the High Court by delivering it to the prescribed officer, or otherwise dealing with it in the prescribed manner.

(6)

The prescribed officer must send a copy of the petition to the returning officer for the Senedd constituency to which the petition relates.

(7)

The returning officer must immediately publish the petition in that constituency.

(8)

The petition must be served in the prescribed manner.

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