{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/senedd-cymru-representation-of-the-people-order-2025/schedule-4/paragraph-19",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/senedd-cymru-representation-of-the-people-order-2025/schedule-4/paragraph-19.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/19",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "19",
  "heading": "Rule 56 (arrangements for the counting of votes)",
  "text": "Rule 56 is to be read as if after paragraph (2) there were inserted—\n“(3) Where the poll at a Senedd election is taken together with a poll at a police and crime commissioner election and the returning officer at the Senedd election (“S”) does not discharge the functions specified in paragraph 2 of Schedule 4, so that paragraphs (1) and (2) do not apply, S must—\n(a) make arrangements for counting the votes in the presence of the counting agents after the delivery of the ballot papers to S by the returning officer who does discharge those functions, and\n(b) give notice in writing to the counting agents of the time and place S will begin to count the votes if S has by then received the ballot papers.\n(4) Where the poll at a Senedd election is taken together with a poll at a police and crime commissioner election and the returning officer for the Senedd election is discharging the functions specified in paragraph 2 of Schedule 4, a reference in this rule and rule 57 to the “counting agents” also includes the counting agents appointed for the purposes of the police and crime commissioner election.”",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 4 para. 19 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/19",
    "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."
}