# The Senedd Cymru (Representation of the People) Order 2025, Paragraph 10: Additional requirements for applications for an emergency proxy vote in respect of a particular election: grounds relating to occupation, service or employment

Extent: E+W

(1) This paragraph sets out the requirements referred to in paragraph 9(5).
(2) The application must, in addition to providing the information required by paragraph 9(2), state—
(a) where the applicant is employed, the name of the applicant’s employer, and in any other case, the nature of the applicant’s occupation or service,
(b) that the reason provided in accordance with paragraph 9(2) relates to the applicant’s occupation, service or employment, and
(c) the date on which the applicant became aware of that reason.
(3) Sub-paragraphs (4), (5) and (6) apply unless the applicant is or will be registered as a service voter.
(4) The application must be attested and signed—
(a) where the applicant is employed, by the applicant’s employer or by another employee to whom this function is delegated by the employer, or
(b) in any other case, by a person who—
(i) is aged 16 years or over,
(ii) knows the applicant, and
(iii) is not related to the applicant.
(5) The person attesting an application under sub-paragraph (4) (“the attestor”) must certify that the statements required by sub-paragraph (2) and the information required by paragraph 9(2) are true to the best of the attestor’s knowledge and belief.
(6) The attestor must also state—
(a) the attestor’s name and address, and
(b) if the attestor is attesting—
(i) as or on behalf of the applicant’s employer, that the attestor is the applicant’s employer, or the position the attestor holds in relation to that employer, or
(ii) other than as or on behalf of the applicant’s employer, that the attestor is aged 16 years or over and that the attestor knows, but is not related to, the applicant.
(7) For the purposes of this paragraph, one person (“A”) is related to another (“B”) if A is the spouse, civil partner, parent, grandparent, brother, sister, child or grandchild of B.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2025/864/schedule/1/paragraph/10 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/senedd-cymru-representation-of-the-people-order-2025/schedule-1/paragraph-10
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