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<Text>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.</Text>
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<Text>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—</Text>
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<Text>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</Text>
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<Text>to such other descriptions of persons as may be specified in such regulations.</Text>
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<Text>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.</Text>
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