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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/senedd-cymru-returning-officers-accounts-order-2026/article-2",
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  "legislation": "wsi/2026/77",
  "legislation_title": "The Senedd Cymru (Returning Officers’ Accounts) Order 2026",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/senedd-cymru-returning-officers-accounts-order-2026",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "In this Order—\n“the 2025 Order” (“Gorchymyn 2025”) means the Senedd Cymru (Representation of the People) Order 2025;\n“account” (“cyfrif”) means an account submitted for the recovery of a returning officer’s charges for, or in connection with, a Senedd election, under article 23(1) and (2) of the 2025 Order;\n“returning officer” (“swyddog canlyniadau”) means the officer who, in accordance with article 18(2) of the 2025 Order, is the returning officer for a Senedd constituency;\n“Senedd constituency” (“etholaeth Senedd”) means a constituency as defined in regulation 4 of, and the Schedule to, the Senedd Cymru Constituency Regulations 2025;\n“Senedd election” (“etholiad i’r Senedd”) means an election to return a Senedd member for a Senedd constituency.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 2025/709 (W. 122)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2026/77/article/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T22:55:11.677418+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."
}