{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/welsh-elections-financial-assistance-scheme-disabled-candidates-regulations-2025/regulation-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/welsh-elections-financial-assistance-scheme-disabled-candidates-regulations-2025/regulation-2.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/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "(1) In these Regulations—\n“the 2024 Act” (“Deddf 2024”) means the Elections and Elected Bodies (Wales) Act 2024;\n“the 2025 Order” (“Gorchymyn 2025”) means the Senedd Cymru (Representation of the People) Order 2025;\n“candidate” (“ymgeisydd”) means—\n(a) in relation to a Senedd Cymru election, a person who—\n(i) intends to stand as an individual candidate, or who is validly nominated as an individual candidate, at that election, or\n(ii) intends to stand as a party list candidate, or is validly nominated as a party list candidate, at that election;\n(b) in relation to an election of members of a county or county borough council in Wales, a person who intends to stand as a candidate, or who is validly nominated as a candidate, at that election;\n(c) in relation to an election of members of a community council in Wales, a person who intends to stand as a candidate, or who is validly nominated as a candidate, at that election;\n“disabled” (“anabl”) has the same meaning as in section 28(13) of the 2024 Act;\n“financial assistance” (“cymorth ariannol”) has the same meaning as in section 31 of the 2024 Act;\n“individual candidate” (“ymgeisydd unigol”) means a candidate at a Senedd Cymru election other than a party list candidate;\n“party list candidate” (“ymgeisydd rhestr plaid”) means a candidate at a Senedd Cymru election included on a list of candidates submitted by a registered political party;\n“registered political party” (“plaid wleidyddol gofrestredig”) means a party registered under Part 2 of the Political Parties, Elections and Referendums Act 2000;\n“Welsh election” (“etholiad Cymreig”) means an election for the return of a member of—\n(a) Senedd Cymru;\n(b) the council of a county or county borough in Wales;\n(c) the council of a community in Wales.\n(2) A person is validly nominated as a candidate at a Welsh election—\n(a) in relation to a Senedd Cymru election, if their nomination—\n(i) as an individual candidate at that election is accepted as being valid by the returning officer in accordance with rule 14 of Schedule 5 to the 2025 Order;\n(ii) as a party list candidate at that election is accepted as being valid by the returning officer in accordance with rule 15 of Schedule 5 to the 2025 Order;\n(b) in relation to an election of members of a county or county borough council, if their nomination as a candidate at that election is accepted as being valid by the returning officer in accordance with rule 10 of Schedule 1 or rule 10 of Schedule 2 to the Local Elections (Principal Areas) (Wales) Rules 2021;\n(c) in relation to an election of members of a community council, if their nomination as a candidate at that election is accepted as being valid by the returning officer in accordance with rule 10 of Schedule 1 or rule 10 of Schedule 2 to the Local Elections (Communities) (Wales) Rules 2021.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 2025/864 (W. 150)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "2000 c. 41."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "S.I. 2021/1459 (W. 374). Relevant amendments are made by S.I. 2022/263 (W. 79) regulations 1(2), 2(2) and (3), and 12(a)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f4",
      "text": "S.I. 2021/1460 (W. 375). Relevant amendments are made by S.I. 2022/263 (W. 79) regulations 1(2), 2(5) and (6), and 12(a)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2025/897/regulation/2",
    "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."
}