{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/senedd-cymru-representation-of-the-people-order-2025/schedule-2/paragraph-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/senedd-cymru-representation-of-the-people-order-2025/schedule-2/paragraph-1.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/2/paragraph/1",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "For the purposes of this Schedule—\n“agent” (“asiant”) includes an election agent and a person appointed to attend in the election agent’s place;\n“ballot paper envelope” (“amlen papur pleidleisio”) and “covering envelope” (“prif amlen”) means the envelopes referred to in paragraph 11;\n“issue” (“dyroddiad”) includes the original and any subsequent issue;\n“personal identifiers record” (“cofnod dynodyddion personol”) means the record kept in accordance with paragraph 4 of Schedule 1;\n“postal ballot box” (“blwch pleidleisio drwy’r post”) means the ballot box referred to in paragraph 18(1)(b);\n“postal voters’ ballot box” (“blwch pleidleisio pleidleiswyr drwy’r post”) means the ballot box referred to in paragraph 18(1)(a);\n“receptacle for ballot paper envelopes” (“daliedydd ar gyfer amlenni papurau pleidleisio”), “receptacle for postal voting statements (verification procedure)” (“daliedydd ar gyfer datganiadau pleidleisiau drwy’r post (y weithdrefn wirhau)”); “receptacle for rejected ballot paper envelopes” (“daliedydd ar gyfer amlenni papurau pleidleisio a wrthodwyd”); “receptacle for rejected votes” (“daliedydd ar gyfer pleidleisiau a wrthodwyd”) and “receptacle for rejected votes (verification procedure)” (“daliedydd ar gyfer pleidleisiau a wrthodwyd (y weithdrefn wirhau)”) means the receptacles referred to in paragraph 18(6);\n“spoilt postal ballot paper” (“papur pleidleisio drwy’r post a ddifethwyd”) means a ballot paper referred to in paragraph 14(1);\n“valid postal voting statement” (“datganiad pleidlais drwy’r post dilys”) means a postal voting statement, which, in accordance with paragraph 23, the returning officer is satisfied has been duly completed.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 2 para. 1 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/schedule/2/paragraph/1",
    "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."
}