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Amendment of regulation 18 (issue of official petition notice)E+W+S

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72.  In regulation 18 (issue of official petition notice), in paragraph (7)—

(a)after sub-paragraph (f) insert—

(fa)in respect of an official petition notice described in paragraph (6)(a) or (c) for a recall petition held in England, Wales or Scotland, details of the documents the elector or proxy needs to produce when applying for a signing sheet, namely—

(i)in the case of an elector (other than an elector with an anonymous entry) or a proxy, any of the forms of identification for the time being referred to in rule 37(1H) of Schedule 1 to the 1983 Act (parliamentary elections rules);

(ii)in the case of an elector with an anonymous entry, the elector’s official petition notice and an anonymous elector’s document showing the same number on the register as the number on the register shown on the official petition notice;;

(b)in paragraph (8), after “(f)” insert “, (fa)”.

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I1Reg. 72 in force at 16.1.2023, see reg. 1(3)

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