{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/senedd-cymru-representation-of-the-people-order-2025/schedule-2/paragraph-24",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/senedd-cymru-representation-of-the-people-order-2025/schedule-2/paragraph-24.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/24",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "24",
  "heading": "Opening of ballot paper envelopes",
  "text": "(1) The returning officer must open separately each ballot paper envelope placed in the receptacle for ballot paper envelopes.\n(2) The returning officer must place—\n(a) in the postal ballot box, any ballot paper the number on which is the same as the number, or one of the numbers, on the ballot paper envelope;\n(b) in the receptacle for rejected votes, any other ballot paper, which must be marked with the words “gwrthodwyd dros dro” or the words “provisionally rejected” or both, and to which must be attached the ballot paper envelope;\n(c) in the receptacle for rejected ballot paper envelopes, any ballot paper envelope which must be marked with the words “gwrthodwyd dros dro” or the words “provisionally rejected” or both, because it does not contain either a ballot paper or, where more than one number appears on the ballot paper envelope, a sufficient number of ballot papers, and state, in such a case, the missing ballot paper or papers.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 2 para. 24 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/24",
    "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."
}