{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/senedd-cymru-representation-of-the-people-order-2025/schedule-9/paragraph-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/senedd-cymru-representation-of-the-people-order-2025/schedule-9/paragraph-2.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/9/paragraph/2",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Modification of rule 2(2) (definitions)",
  "text": "(1) Rule 2(2) is to be read as if it contained the following additional defined terms—\n“candidate” means an individual candidate or a party list candidate for return as a Senedd member;\n“the Clerk of the Senedd” is to be construed in accordance with section 26 of the Government of Wales Act 2006;\n“party list candidate” means a candidate included on a list of a registered political party;\n“Presiding Officer of the Senedd” is to be construed in accordance with section 25 of the Government of Wales Act 2006;\n“registered political party” means a party registered under Part 2 of the Political Parties, Elections and Referendums Act 2000;\n“Senedd Cymru election” means the holding of elections for the return of all Senedd members;\n“Senedd constituency” is to be construed in accordance with section 2 of the Government of Wales Act 2006;\n“Senedd election petition” means a petition presented in pursuance of Part 4 of the Senedd Cymru (Representation of the People) Order 2025.\n(2) In rule 2(2), the definitions are modified as follows—\n(a) except in rule 2(3), “the Act” is to be read as meaning this Order, and any reference to a section of the 1983 Act is to be read as a reference to the corresponding provision in this Order, as set out in paragraph 8 of this Schedule;\n(b) “local election petition”, is to be read as if it were omitted as is rule 18 and any reference in the 1960 Rules to a provision of the 1983 Act which applies only to a local election petition;\n(c) “petition” is to be read as meaning a Senedd election petition;\n(d) “constituency” is to be read as meaning the Senedd constituency to which the petition relates.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 9 para. 2 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/9/paragraph/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T22:57:06.457930+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."
}