{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/senedd-cymru-representation-of-the-people-order-2025/schedule-5/rule-40",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/senedd-cymru-representation-of-the-people-order-2025/schedule-5/rule-40.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/40",
  "kind": "rule",
  "number": "40",
  "heading": "Notification of requirement of secrecy",
  "text": "(1) The returning officer must make arrangements to ensure that every person attending at a polling station, other than a person described in paragraph (2), has been given a notice setting out the provisions of article 35(1), (2), (4) and (7).\n(2) The persons to whom the duty under paragraph (1) does not apply are—\n(a) a person attending the polling station for the purpose of voting;\n(b) a person under the age of 16 who accompanies a voter to the polling station;\n(c) a person attending the polling station as the companion of a voter with disabilities;\n(d) a person attending the polling station as a constable on duty.\n(3) In this rule, a reference to a constable includes a person designated as a community support officer or community support volunteer under section 38 of the Police Reform Act 2002 (police powers for civilian staff and volunteers).",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 5 rule 40 in force at 18.7.2025, see art. 1(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "2002 c. 30. Section 38 was amended by Part 2 of Schedule 17 to the Serious Organised Crime and Police Act 2005 (c. 15); paragraph 2 of Schedule 5 to the Police and Justice Act 2006 (c. 48); paragraph 292 of Schedule 16 to the Police Reform and Social Responsibility Act 2011 (c. 13); and sections 8(7) and 38 (as amended by S.I. 2017/1162) of, and paragraph 82 of Schedule 1 to, the Policing and Crime Act 2017 (c. 3)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2025/864/schedule/5/rule/40",
    "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."
}