The Recall of MPs Act 2015 (Recall Petition) Regulations 2016

45.  In rule 10 (duty to specify matters in issue in certain complaints)—

(a) for paragraphs (1) and (2), substitute—

“(1) Where a recall petition complaint is of an undue result in a petition, every party shall, not less than seven days before the date fixed for trial, file a list of the signatures which that party contends were wrongly admitted or rejected, stating in respect of each such signature the grounds for that contention, and serve a copy of the list on every other party and the Director of Public Prosecutions.

(2) Where the respondent to such a complaint intends to give evidence under section 139(5) of the 1983 Act (trial of petition) that the outcome of the petition was not undue, the respondent shall, not less than seven days before the day fixed for the trial of the petition, file a statement of the grounds for that contention and serve a copy of those grounds on the complainant and the Director of Public Prosecutions.”;

(b) in paragraph (4)—

(i) in subparagraph (a), for “vote” substitute “signature”;

(ii) in subparagraph (b), for “objection to a person’s election which is not specified in a list” substitute “ground of contention not included in a statement”.