{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/senedd-cymru-representation-of-the-people-order-2025/schedule-4/paragraph-18",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/senedd-cymru-representation-of-the-people-order-2025/schedule-4/paragraph-18.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/4/paragraph/18",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "18",
  "heading": "Rule 55 (procedure on close of poll)",
  "text": "(1) In rule 55—\n(a) the opening words of paragraph (2) are to be read as if after the words “polling agents” there were inserted the words “appointed for the purposes of the Senedd election and for the purposes of the police and crime commissioner election”;\n(b) paragraph (3) is to be read as if after the words “polling agents” there were inserted the words “appointed for the purposes of the Senedd election and for the purposes of the police and crime commissioner election”.\n(2) Rule 55 is to be read as if after paragraph (3) there were inserted—\n“(3A) Where the poll at a Senedd election is taken together with a poll at a police and crime commissioner election, the contents of the packets referred to in paragraph (3)(a), (b), (d) and (e) must not be combined with the contents of packets made under the corresponding rule that applies at a police and crime commissioner election, nor must the statement prepared under paragraph (8) be so combined.”",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 4 para. 18 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/4/paragraph/18",
    "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."
}