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

Delivery of documents to the registration officer: England and Wales and Northern Ireland

44.—(1) The petition officer must forward to the registration officer the following documents—

(a) the packets of signing sheets,

(b) the daily signing sheet accounts, the final signing sheet accounts, the statement of rejected signing sheets and the verification of the signing sheets accounts,

(c) the tendered signing lists, the lists of persons with disabilities assisted by the petition clerk, and the list of alterations to the register,

(d) the packets of the completed corresponding number lists,

(e) the packets of certificates as to employment on duty during the signing period,

(f) the packets containing marked copies of the register (including any marked copy notices issued under section 13BC(6) of the 1983 Act) and of the postal signers list, of lists of proxies and of the proxy postal signers list,

(g) such other documents relating to the petition as the petition officer considers appropriate,

endorsing on each packet a description of its contents, the dates of the signing period of the petition to which it relates and the name of the constituency in relation to which the petition was held.

(2) Paragraph (1)(f) does not apply in relation to a petition for a constituency in Northern Ireland, but the petition officer for such a petition must instead endorse on each packet containing—

(a) marked copies of the registers,

(b) the postal signers list,

(c) the proxy postal signers list, and

(d) lists of proxies,

a description of its contents, the dates of the signing period of the petition to which it relates and the name of the constituency in relation to which the petition was held.

(3) In this regulation and in regulations 45 and 46, a reference to “the registration officer” is a reference to—

(a) for England and Wales—

(i) the registration officer of the local authority in whose area the constituency of the MP to whom the petition related is situated, or

(ii) if the constituency includes any part of the area of more than one local authority, the registration officer of the local authority in whose area the greatest number of electors is registered;

(b) for Northern Ireland, the Clerk of the Crown for Northern Ireland.