{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/senedd-cymru-representation-of-the-people-order-2025/schedule-3/paragraph-21",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/senedd-cymru-representation-of-the-people-order-2025/schedule-3/paragraph-21.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/3/paragraph/21",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "21",
  "heading": "Rule 73 (abandoned poll)",
  "text": "Rule 73 is to be read as if after paragraph (5) there were inserted—\n“(6) Where the poll at a Senedd election is taken together with a poll at a local government election and the poll at the Senedd election is abandoned in accordance with rule 72(1)(b) (by reason of an individual candidate’s death)—\n(a) the steps required to be taken by the presiding officer at a polling station under paragraph (2) must take place on the close of poll, and\n(b) paragraph (4) is to be construed as if “Having separated the ballot papers relating to the local government election,” were inserted before “the returning officer” in the first place it occurs.”",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 3 para. 21 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/3/paragraph/21",
    "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."
}