{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/senedd-cymru-representation-of-the-people-order-2025/schedule-5/rule-65",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/senedd-cymru-representation-of-the-people-order-2025/schedule-5/rule-65.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/65",
  "kind": "rule",
  "number": "65",
  "heading": "Return or forfeiture of deposit",
  "text": "(1) The deposit made under rule 11 is to be—\n(a) in the case of an individual candidate, returned to the person making it, or to that person’s personal representatives,\n(b) in the case of a registered political party, returned to the registered nominating officer of the party which submitted the party list to which the deposit relates, or\n(c) forfeited (see paragraph (5)).\n(2) Except in the cases set out in paragraph (4), the deposit must be returned not later than the next day after that on which the result or results of the elections is or are declared.\n(3) For the purposes of paragraph (2)—\n(a) any day that is an excluded day must be disregarded, and\n(b) the deposit will be treated as being returned on a day if a cheque for the amount of the deposit is posted on that day.\n(4) Where—\n(a) an individual candidate or a registered political party is not shown as standing nominated in the statement required by rule 17(1), or\n(b) the poll is countermanded or abandoned by reason of an individual candidate’s death,\nthe deposit must be returned as soon as practicable after the publication of that statement or the time when the returning officer is satisfied of the candidate’s death.\n(5) Subject to paragraph (4)—\n(a) an individual candidate’s deposit will be forfeited if, after the poll is taken and after the counting of the votes, including any re-count, is completed, that candidate is found to have polled less than 5% of the total number of votes polled in the constituency in which the candidate stood nominated;\n(b) a registered political party’s deposit will be forfeited in respect of a constituency in which the party stood nominated if, after the poll is taken and after the counting of the votes, including any re-count, is completed, the party is found to have polled less than 5% of the total number of votes polled in that constituency.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 5 rule 65 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/65",
    "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."
}