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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/senedd-cymru-representation-of-the-people-order-2025/schedule-2/paragraph-4",
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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": "schedule/2/paragraph/4",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Persons entitled to be present at proceedings on issue of postal ballot papers",
  "text": "(1) Without prejudice to the provisions of section 6A, 6B, 6C, 6D or 6E of the 2000 Political Parties Act (representatives of the Electoral Commission and accredited observers), no person may be present at the proceedings on the issue of postal ballot papers other than the returning officer and members of the returning officer’s staff.\n(2) The returning officer must be the relevant officer for the purposes of section 6E of that Act (powers of the relevant officer to limit attendance and the conduct of observers).",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 2 para. 4 in force at 18.7.2025, see art. 1(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "2000 c. 41. Sections 6A to 6E were inserted by section 29 of the Electoral Administration Act 2006 (c. 22). Section 6A was amended by paragraph 10 of Schedule 10 to Police Reform and Social Responsibility Act 2011 (c. 13); paragraph 3 of Schedule 6 to the Recall of MPs Act 2015 (c. 25) and S.I. 2007/1388. Section 6C was amended by paragraph 5 of Schedule 2 to the Senedd and Elections (Wales) Act 2020 (anaw 1). Section 6D was amended by paragraph 6 of Schedule 2 to the Senedd and Elections (Wales) Act 2020."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2025/864/schedule/2/paragraph/4",
    "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."
}