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112.—(1) For petitions in England and Wales and Scotland, as soon as practicable after the completion of the procedure under regulation 111(3) and (4) (checking of lists of rejected signing sheets), the petition officer must make up into separate packets the contents of—

(a)the receptacle for rejected signing sheets,

(b)the receptacle for rejected signing sheet envelopes,

(c)the lists of spoilt, lost or cancelled postal signing sheets,

(d)the receptacle for rejected signing sheets (verification procedure),

(e)the receptacle for postal petition statements (verification procedure),

and must seal up such packets.

(2) For petitions in Northern Ireland, as soon as practicable after the completion of the procedure under regulation 108 (opening of signing sheet envelopes) the petition officer must make up into separate packets the contents of—

(a)the receptacle for rejected signing sheets,

(b)the receptacle for declarations of identity,

(c)the lists of spoilt, lost or cancelled postal signing sheets,

and must seal up such packets.

(3) Any document in those packets referred to in paragraph (1) marked “provisionally rejected” is to be deemed to be marked “rejected”.

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I1Reg. 112 in force at 4.3.2016, see reg. 1

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