{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/senedd-cymru-returning-officers-accounts-order-2026/article-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/senedd-cymru-returning-officers-accounts-order-2026/article-5.json",
  "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/5",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Documents to accompany an account",
  "text": "Any account submitted under this Order must be accompanied by—\n(1) a receipt, or other supporting document, in respect of each expense incurred by the returning officer to whom the account relates, and\n(2) a certificate, signed by that returning officer in the following terms—\n(a) in English—\nI declare that this account, submitted for the purposes of the payment of charges in respect of services necessarily rendered and expenses necessarily incurred for the efficient and effective conduct of this election in the Senedd constituency for which I am responsible, is correct to the best of my knowledge and belief.\n(b) in Welsh—\nYr wyf yn datgan bod y cyfrif hwn, a gyflwynir at ddibenion talu taliadau mewn cysylltiad â gwasanaethau a ddarparwyd o reidrwydd a threuliau yr aed iddynt o reidrwydd er mwyn cynnal yr etholiad hwn yn effeithlon ac yn effeithiol yn yr etholaeth Senedd yr wyf yn gyfrifol amdani, yn gywir hyd eithaf fy ngwybodaeth a’m cred.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2026/77/article/5",
    "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."
}