{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/welsh-elections-financial-assistance-scheme-disabled-candidates-regulations-2025/regulation-14",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/welsh-elections-financial-assistance-scheme-disabled-candidates-regulations-2025/regulation-14.json",
  "legislation": "wsi/2025/897",
  "legislation_title": "The Welsh Elections Financial Assistance Scheme (Disabled Candidates) Regulations 2025",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/welsh-elections-financial-assistance-scheme-disabled-candidates-regulations-2025",
  "path": "regulation/14",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "14",
  "heading": "Records and accounts",
  "text": "(1) The scheme operator must keep an up-to-date record and account of the following—\n(a) a summary of usage of the financial assistance scheme including—\n(i) the number of applications received;\n(ii) the type of support or adjustments requested by the candidates;\n(iii) the outcome of the assessed applications, including the support or adjustments and costs which were approved;\n(iv) the number of withdrawn applications and reasons for withdrawal;\n(b) all financial assistance payments made, and whether such payments were made directly to a candidate or directly to the suppliers of support or adjustments for the candidate;\n(c) an assessment of the cost of operating the scheme.\n(2) The scheme operator must make the records and accounts referred to in paragraph (1) available for inspection upon notice by the Welsh Ministers.\n(3) Any records and accounts provided to Welsh Ministers under paragraph (2)—\n(a) must be in an anonymised format, and\n(b) must not include information capable of identifying a candidate as the recipient of the approved financial assistance.\n(4) The scheme operator must retain the records and accounts referred to in paragraph (1) for 2 years after the day of the poll of a Welsh election and then, unless otherwise directed by order of the High Court, the Crown Court or a magistrates’ court, must cause them to be destroyed.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2025/897/regulation/14",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T22:57:00.798068+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."
}