{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/senedd-cymru-representation-of-the-people-order-2025/schedule-5/rule-71",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/senedd-cymru-representation-of-the-people-order-2025/schedule-5/rule-71.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/71",
  "kind": "rule",
  "number": "71",
  "heading": "Destruction of home address forms by returning officer",
  "text": "(1) The returning officer must destroy each candidate’s home address form—\n(a) on the next day following the thirty-fifth day after the returning officer has returned the names of the members elected, unless a Senedd election petition questioning the election or the return of members is presented before that day;\n(b) if a Senedd election petition questioning the election or return of members is presented before that day, as soon as practicable following the conclusion of proceedings on the petition, including, where there is an appeal, the proceedings on the appeal.\n(2) For the purpose of deciding the day on which candidates’ home address forms must be destroyed, any day that is an excluded day must be disregarded.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 5 rule 71 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/71",
    "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."
}