{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/welsh-elections-information-platform-regulations-2025/regulation-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/welsh-elections-information-platform-regulations-2025/regulation-4.json",
  "legislation": "wsi/2025/331",
  "legislation_title": "The Welsh Elections Information Platform Regulations 2025",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/welsh-elections-information-platform-regulations-2025",
  "path": "regulation/4",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Functions of the platform operator",
  "text": "(1) The platform operator must establish and operate the platform in accordance with these Regulations.\n(2) In carrying out its functions under paragraph (1), the platform operator must—\n(a) make arrangements to appoint a third party to create and build an electronic facility (such as an online system);\n(b) ensure the platform provides, hosts and publishes information in a politically neutral manner about—\n(i) specified elections,\n(ii) candidates, and\n(iii) registered political parties standing in elections to Senedd Cymru;\n(c) maintain the platform by keeping the published information up-to-date;\n(d) ensure, as far as reasonably practicable, that appropriate security measures are in place to protect the platform’s electronic facilities and content from unauthorised access, interference, or use;\n(e) deliver a system to check that election addresses and candidate statements, submitted to the platform for publication, comply with the relevant requirements prior to them being published on the platform.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 4 in force at 14.3.2025, see reg. 1(2)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2025/331/regulation/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T22:58:09.234667+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."
}