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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/senedd-cymru-representation-of-the-people-order-2025/article-91",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/senedd-cymru-representation-of-the-people-order-2025/article-91.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/91",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "91",
  "heading": "Constitution of election court and place of trial",
  "text": "(1) A Senedd election petition must be tried by an election court consisting of two judges on the rota for the trial of parliamentary election petitions.\n(2) The judges on the rota must, unless they agree otherwise, try any Senedd election petitions standing for trial according to their seniority.\n(3) Subject to the provisions of this Order, the election court has the same powers, jurisdiction and authority as a judge of the High Court and is a court of record.\n(4) The place of trial must be within the Senedd constituency for which the election was held, but the High Court may appoint an alternative place for the trial if it is satisfied that special circumstances render it desirable for the Senedd election petition to be tried elsewhere.\n(5) The election court may adjourn the trial from one place to another within the Senedd constituency.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Art. 91 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/91",
    "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."
}