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

Notification of a rejected postal petition statement: England and Wales and Scotland

115.—(1) Where an absent signer for a petition in England and Wales or Scotland appears on the list compiled under regulation 110(4) (lists of rejected postal signing sheets)—

(a) the registration officer responsible for the personal identifiers record that contains information in respect of the absent signer must notify the absent signer (and the elector if the absent signer is a proxy) that the signing sheet concerned was rejected because the petition officer was not satisfied that the postal petition statement was duly completed;

(b) the registration officer must send the notification as soon as possible, and within the period of three months beginning with the last day of the signing period; and

(c) the notification must include information as to which of the specified reasons referred to in regulation 110(5) applied to the postal petition statement.

(2) The registration officer is not obliged to send a notification—

(a) to any person who is no longer shown as signing the petition by post in the record kept under regulation 51(4) or regulation 58(7) at the time the registration officer proposes to send the notification; or

(b) where the registration officer suspects that an offence may have been committed in relation to the postal signing sheet, the postal petition statement or the absent signer’s entitlement to sign the petition under section 10 of the Act (persons entitled to sign a recall petition).

(3) A notification issued under paragraph (1) may also include any other information that the registration officer considers appropriate, but a notification must not include information held on the personal identifiers record.