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Paragraph 6 Modification of rule 10(1) (identifying votes at issue)I1

England and Wales

Rule 10(1) is to be read as follows—

“(1)

Where the petition claims the seat for an unsuccessful candidate on the ground that the individual candidate, or the registered political party on whose list the candidate was a party list candidate, had a higher electoral figure than that of another individual candidate or of another registered political party to whom a seat in the Senedd constituency was allocated, every party must, not less than 7 days before the day fixed for the trial—

(a)

file a list of the votes the candidate contends were wrongly admitted or rejected stating, in respect of each such vote, the grounds for the candidate’s contention, and

(b)

serve a copy of the list on every other party and the Director of Public Prosecutions.”

Annotations

Commencement

I1

Sch. 9 para. 6 in force at 18.7.2025, see art. 1(2)