{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/senedd-cymru-representation-of-the-people-order-2025/article-9",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/senedd-cymru-representation-of-the-people-order-2025/article-9.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/9",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "9",
  "heading": "Proxies at Senedd elections",
  "text": "(1) Subject to the provisions of this article, any person is capable of being appointed proxy to vote for another (referred to in this article and article 10 as “the elector”) at any Senedd election and may vote in pursuance of the appointment.\n(2) The elector cannot have more than one person at a time appointed as proxy to vote for the elector at a Senedd election.\n(3) A person is not capable of being appointed to vote, or of voting, as proxy at a Senedd election—\n(a) if that person is subject to any legal incapacity (age apart) to vote at that election as an elector, or\n(b) if that person is not—\n(i) a qualifying Commonwealth citizen,\n(ii) a citizen of the Republic of Ireland,\n(iii) a relevant citizen of the Union, or\n(iv) a qualifying foreign citizen.\n(4) A person is not capable of voting as proxy at a Senedd election unless on the date of the poll that person has attained the age of 16.\n(5) A person is not entitled to vote as proxy in any constituency at the same Senedd election on behalf of more than two electors of whom that person is not the spouse, civil partner, parent, grandparent, brother, sister, child or grandchild.\n(6) Where the elector applies to the registration officer for the appointment of a proxy to vote for the elector at Senedd elections (whether for an indefinite period or for a particular period specified in the elector’s application), the registration officer must make the appointment if the application is signed by the applicant and meets the requirements set out in Schedule 1 and the registration officer is satisfied the elector is or will be—\n(a) registered in the register of electors, and\n(b) shown in the record kept under article 6 as voting by proxy at such elections,\nand that the proxy is capable of being, and willing to be appointed, to vote as proxy at such elections.\n(7) Where the elector applies to the registration officer for the appointment of a proxy to vote for the elector at a particular Senedd election, the registration officer must make the appointment if the application contains the signature and date of birth of the applicant, meets the requirements set out in Schedule 1, and the registration officer is satisfied that the elector is or will be—\n(a) registered in the register of electors for that election, and\n(b) entitled to vote by proxy at that election by virtue of an application under article 7,\nand that the proxy is capable of being, and willing to be, appointed.\n(8) The appointment of a proxy under this article is to be made by means of a proxy paper issued by the registration officer.\n(9) The appointment may be cancelled by the elector giving notice to the registration officer.\n(10) The appointment will cease to be in force—\n(a) on the issue of a proxy paper appointing a different person to vote for the elector at a Senedd election or Senedd elections, whether in the same Senedd constituency or elsewhere, and\n(b) where the appointment was for a particular period, once that period expires.\n(11) Subject to paragraphs (9) and (10), the appointment will remain in force—\n(a) in the case of an appointment for a particular election, for that election, and\n(b) in any other case, while the elector is shown as voting by proxy in the record kept under article 6 in pursuance of the same application under that article.\n(12) Paragraph 14 of Schedule 1 (cancellation of proxy appointment) provides for the steps to be taken where a proxy’s appointment is—\n(a) cancelled under paragraph (9),\n(b) ceases to be in force under paragraph (10), or\n(c) is no longer in force under paragraph (11)(b).\n(13) The registration officer may dispense with the requirement under paragraph (6) or (7) for the applicant to provide a signature if the registration officer is satisfied that the applicant is unable to—\n(a) provide a signature because of any disability the applicant has,\n(b) provide a signature because the applicant is unable to read or write, or\n(c) sign in a consistent and distinctive way because of any such disability or inability.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Art. 9 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/9",
    "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."
}