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notice</heading><section eId="section-7" uk:target="true"><num>7</num><heading>Public notice of recall poll</heading><subsection eId="section-7-1"><num>(1)</num><content><p>As soon as reasonably practicable after receiving a notice in accordance with section 6, a constituency returning officer must give public notice of the recall poll in accordance with any provision made by regulations under section 11.</p></content></subsection><subsection eId="section-7-2"><num>(2)</num><intro><p>In addition, the constituency returning officer must send a notice of the recall poll in accordance with any provision made by regulations under section 11—</p></intro><level class="para1" eId="section-7-2-a"><num>(a)</num><content><p>to such descriptions of persons registered in the registers of local government electors for the areas within the Senedd constituency as are to be specified in such regulations, and</p></content></level><level class="para1" eId="section-7-2-b"><num>(b)</num><content><p>to such other descriptions of persons as may be specified in such regulations.</p></content></level></subsection><subsection eId="section-7-3"><num>(3)</num><content><p>Regulations under section 11 must require the notice to contain information about the trigger event that has occurred in relation to the Member of the Senedd.</p></content></subsection></section></hcontainer></part></body></act></akomaNtoso>