{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/welsh-elections-information-platform-regulations-2025/regulation-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/welsh-elections-information-platform-regulations-2025/regulation-5.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/5",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Guidance",
  "text": "(1) The platform operator must provide guidance about the operation of the platform.\n(2) The guidance must include information about the following—\n(a) the service provided by the platform and the mechanisms used to provide that service;\n(b) the documents that electoral administrators may send to the platform operator for publication on the platform;\n(c) the required format of any documents that are submitted to the platform operator;\n(d) the means by which electoral administrators may publish information referred to in regulation 6 which would assist the platform operator to obtain and publish that information on the platform;\n(e) how election addresses and candidate statements may be produced and sent to the platform operator.\n(3) The guidance may include any other matter that will assist the platform operator in carrying out its functions in relation to the operation of the platform.\n(4) The guidance must be published on the platform by the platform operator.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 5 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/5",
    "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."
}