{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/senedd-cymru-representation-of-the-people-order-2025/schedule-5/rule-26",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/senedd-cymru-representation-of-the-people-order-2025/schedule-5/rule-26.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/5/rule/26",
  "kind": "rule",
  "number": "26",
  "heading": "The ballot papers",
  "text": "(1) The ballot of every voter must consist of a ballot paper.\n(2) Only the following, and no others, are entitled to have their names and descriptions inserted into a ballot paper—\n(a) the registered political parties which have submitted a party list and are shown in the statement of parties and persons nominated, together with the party list candidates appearing on the party list of each such party and as standing nominated, and\n(b) the persons shown in that statement standing nominated as individual candidates.\n(3) A ballot paper must be—\n(a) in form 12 set out in Welsh and English in Schedule 10, and\n(b) printed in accordance with the directions in form 13 in that Schedule.\n(4) The ballot paper must—\n(a) contain the names of the individual candidates shown in the statement of parties and persons nominated, but must not contain a candidate’s home address information,\n(b) contain the names or descriptions of the registered political parties shown in the statement of parties and persons nominated, together with the names of the candidates included on those parties’ lists,\n(c) where a registered political party has elected to use the word “Wales”, “Welsh”, “Cymru” or “Cymreig” in the registered party name as set out in rules 6(4) and 7(2) and (3), display that word or those words on the ballot paper,\n(d) be capable of being folded up, and\n(e) have a number and other unique identifying mark printed on the back.\n(5) The order of—\n(a) the names or descriptions of the registered political parties, and\n(b) the individual candidates,\nin the ballot paper must be the same as in the statement of parties and persons nominated.\n(6) If a certificate received by the returning officer under rule 7(1) requests that a registered political party’s emblem, or one of the party’s registered emblems, be shown on the ballot paper, the ballot paper must also contain that emblem to the right of the party’s name.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 5 rule 26 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/5/rule/26",
    "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."
}