Guidance for Returning Officers administering a Senedd election

As soon as practicable after an individual candidate’s nomination paper, accompanying home address form and their consent to nomination form and deposit has been delivered, you must examine them and decide whether the candidate has been validly nominated.1
 
An individual candidate stands nominated unless and until:2

• you decide the nomination paper is invalid
• the candidate dies
• the candidate withdraws

Grounds for determining an individual candidate’s nomination papers invalid

By law, the only grounds you have for determining that a nomination form is invalid are:3

• the particulars of the candidate are not as required by law
• the candidate is disqualified under s16(A1) of the 2006 Act
• the candidate’s candidature is in breach of s7(5) of the 2006 Act 
• the nomination paper is not subscribed as required by rule 5(6) of the Senedd election rules