{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/senedd-cymru-representation-of-the-people-order-2025/schedule-1/paragraph-20",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/senedd-cymru-representation-of-the-people-order-2025/schedule-1/paragraph-20.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": "schedule/1/paragraph/20",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "20",
  "heading": "Protection of information about persons aged under 16",
  "text": "(1) Subject to sub-paragraph (2), a young person’s information, other than any information by which the person’s date of birth may be ascertained, may be disclosed in a version or copy of an absent voters record or list supplied in accordance with the relevant provisions of this Order in relation to Senedd elections, but only so far as it is necessary to do so for the purposes of, or in connection with, an election at which the person will be entitled to vote.\n(2) Save for sub-paragraph (1), a registration officer must not publish, supply or otherwise disclose a young person’s information, except in accordance with section 25, or regulations made under section 26, of the Senedd and Elections (Wales) Act 2020.\n(3) In this paragraph—\n“absent voters record or list” (“cofnod neu restr o bleidleiswyr absennol”) is to be construed in accordance with section 24(2) of the Senedd and Elections (Wales) Act 2020, and also includes the records kept under articles 6(11) and 10(13);\n“young person’s information” (“gwybodaeth person ifanc”) is to be construed in accordance with section 24(2) of the Senedd and Elections (Wales) Act 2020.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 1 para. 20 in force at 18.7.2025, see art. 1(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "2020 anaw 1. Section 26 was amended by paragraph 15 of Schedule 2 to the Local Government and Elections (Wales) Act 2021 (asc 1)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "Section 24(2) was amended by paragraph 15 of Schedule 2 to the Local Government and Elections (Wales) Act 2021 (asc 1)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2025/1331",
      "affecting_title": "The Data (Use and Access) Act 2025 (Consequential and Other Amendments) Regulations 2025"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2025/864/schedule/1/paragraph/20",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-14T03:35:52.324656+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."
}