{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/welsh-elections-financial-assistance-scheme-disabled-candidates-regulations-2025/regulation-15",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/welsh-elections-financial-assistance-scheme-disabled-candidates-regulations-2025/regulation-15.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/15",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "15",
  "heading": "Reports",
  "text": "(1) No later than 6 months after the day of the poll of a Welsh election, the scheme operator must publish a report.\n(2) The report must include details of—\n(a) the number of approaches made to the scheme operator for financial assistance;\n(b) the number of applications received, approved and rejected;\n(c) the nature of the candidates’ disabilities together with details of the support required for which financial assistance was requested;\n(d) circumstances when financial assistance was approved but not paid within a timescale that enabled the candidate to be assisted, and the reasons why;\n(e) the amount of financial assistance provided including a breakdown of the payments made;\n(f) the occasions when notice was provided by the scheme operator requiring the repayment of any part of financial assistance paid to a person under the financial assistance scheme;\n(g) feedback from candidates about their experience of using the financial assistance scheme.\n(3) The report published under paragraph (1) must—\n(a) be in an anonymised format;\n(b) not include information capable of identifying a candidate as the recipient of the approved financial assistance;\n(c) not contravene data protection legislation (within the meaning of the Data Protection Act 2018).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "2018 c. 12."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2025/897/regulation/15",
    "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."
}