{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/senedd-cymru-representation-of-the-people-order-2025/schedule-3/paragraph-3",
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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/3/paragraph/3",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Modification of provisions about expenses in this Order and the 1983 Act",
  "text": "(1) Sub-paragraph (2) applies where those functions of a returning officer at an election which are specified in paragraph 2 are discharged by the returning officer at another election under paragraph 1.\n(2) References to the returning officer or the returning officer’s charges or expenditure—\n(a) in article 23(1) to (5) and (7) to (9) (payments by and to returning officer),\n(b) in article 24 (detailed assessment of returning officer’s account), and\n(c) in section 36C of the 1983 Act (expenses at local elections),\nare, to the extent that such functions are discharged in accordance with paragraph 1, to be construed as references to the returning officer who discharges those functions and that returning officer’s charges or expenditure in respect of those functions.\n(3) The references in section 36C(3) of the 1983 Act to the returning officer or person acting as returning officer requesting an advance in respect of their expenses are, to the extent that those expenses relate to the functions specified in paragraph 2, to include a reference to the returning officer who under paragraph 1 discharges those functions at the local government election.\n(4) In relation to elections the polls at which are taken together under article 15(1), the Welsh Ministers may under article 23(1) include special provision—\n(a) for services properly rendered, or expenses properly incurred, in respect of the discharge of functions specified in paragraph 2 by the returning officer who discharges those functions by virtue of paragraph 1, and\n(b) in respect of the remuneration of presiding officers and clerks in connection with those functions.\n(5) In relation to elections the polls at which are taken together under article 15(1), a county or county borough council may, in fixing a scale under—\n(a) section 36C(1) of the 1983 Act (fixing a scale at an election to the council etc), or\n(b) section 36C(2) of that Act (fixing a scale at an election for a community within the area of the council etc),\ninclude special provision for expenses incurred in respect of the discharge of functions specified in paragraph 2 by the returning officer who discharges those functions by virtue of paragraph 1, and in respect of the remuneration of presiding officers and clerks in connection with those functions.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 3 para. 3 in force at 18.7.2025, see art. 1(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Section 36C was inserted by paragraph 2 of Schedule 2 to the Local Government and Elections (Wales) Act 2021 (asc 1)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2025/864/schedule/3/paragraph/3",
    "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."
}