The Recall Petition (Petition Officers’ Charges) (Amendment) Regulations 2024

This Statutory Instrument has been printed to correct errors in S.I. 2024/298 and is being issued free of charge to all known recipients of that Statutory Instrument.

Statutory Instruments

2024 No. 525

Representation Of The People

The Recall Petition (Petition Officers’ Charges) (Amendment) Regulations 2024

Made

17th April 2024

Coming into force

18th April 2024

The Secretary of State, with the consent of the Treasury, makes these Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by section 21(1) and (3) of, and paragraph 3(1) and (2) of Schedule 1 to, the Recall of MPs Act 2015(1).

Citation, commencement and extent

1.—(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Recall Petition (Petition Officers’ Charges) (Amendment) Regulations 2024 and come into force on the day after the day on which they are made.

(2) These Regulations extend to England and Wales and Scotland.

Amendment of the Recall Petition (Petition Officers’ Charges) Regulations 2024

2.—(1) The Recall Petition (Petition Officers’ Charges) Regulations 2024(2) are amended as follows.

(2) In the table in Schedule 2 (maximum recoverable amount for specified expenses), for the row containing the entry for “renting, heating, lighting and cleaning any building or room”, substitute—

“Renting, heating, lighting and cleaning any building or room

£9,932.50 per designated signing place

£12,415.62 per designated signing place

£11,918.99 per designated signing place”

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities

Simon Hoare

Parliamentary Under Secretary of State

Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities

17th April 2024

We consent to these Regulations

Amanda Milling

Scott Mann

Two of the Lord Commissioners of His Majesty’s Treasury

17th April 2024

EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations amend the Recall Petitions (Petition Offices’ Charges) Regulations 2024 (S.I. 2024/298) (“the 2024 Regulations”).

The 2024 Regulations prescribe the maximum amounts which a petition officer may recover in respect of a recall petition under the Recall of MPs Act 2015 (“the Act”). Schedule 2 to the 2024 Regulations specifies maximum recoverable amounts for petition officers for particular forms of expense incurred.

These Regulations amend the 2024 Regulations by substituting a row in Schedule 2 of the 2024 Regulations to include words initially omitted from that table in error. This additional wording clarifies that the maximum recoverable amount in respect of “Renting, heating, lighting and cleaning any building or room” is per designated signing place.

A full impact assessment has not been produced for this instrument as no, or no significant, impact on the private, voluntary or public sector is foreseen.

(1)

2015 c. 25. See section 22(1) for the definition of “the Minister”.

(2)

S.I. 2024/298.