{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/senedd-cymru-representation-of-the-people-order-2025/schedule-5/rule-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/senedd-cymru-representation-of-the-people-order-2025/schedule-5/rule-5.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/5",
  "kind": "rule",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Nomination of individual candidates",
  "text": "(1) An individual candidate in a Senedd constituency must be nominated by way of an individual nomination paper in form 7 set out in Welsh and English in Schedule 10, or a form to the like effect.\n(2) The nomination paper may be delivered—\n(a) to one of the places specified by the returning officer in the notice of election for that purpose, or\n(b) in accordance with the arrangements set out in the electronic delivery statement.\n(3) The nomination paper may be delivered—\n(a) by the candidate, or\n(b) by the candidate’s election agent if the agent’s name and address have been previously given to the returning officer as required by article 39 or are so given at the time the nomination paper is delivered.\n(4) The nomination paper must—\n(a) state the candidate’s full names, with the surnames placed first, and\n(b) if desired, state a description consisting of the word “Independent” or the word “Annibynnol” or both.\n(5) If a candidate commonly uses forenames or surnames that are different in any respect from the forenames or surnames stated in accordance with paragraph (4)(a), including where the difference is that the commonly used forenames or surnames are in a different order, include only some of the names or include additional names, the nomination paper may also state the commonly used forenames or surnames.\n(6) Each nomination paper delivered under this rule must be subscribed by one person, and if the subscriber is not the candidate, the subscriber’s full name and address must be set out in the paper.\n(7) The nomination paper must be accompanied by a form which complies with rule 8 (home address form).",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 5 rule 5 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/5",
    "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."
}