{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/senedd-cymru-representation-of-the-people-order-2025/article-99",
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  "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/99",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "99",
  "heading": "Duty to answer relevant questions",
  "text": "(1) A person called as a witness before an election court will not be excused from answering any question relating to any offence connected with the Senedd election or return on the grounds—\n(a) that the answer to it may incriminate that person or that person’s spouse or civil partner, or\n(b) of privilege.\n(2) An answer by a person to a question put by or before an election court will not, except in the case of any criminal proceedings for perjury, be admissible in evidence against that person or that person’s spouse or civil partner.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Art. 99 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/99",
    "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."
}