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

Absent signers lists: England and Wales and Scotland

55.—(1) The registration officer must, in respect of each petition, keep the two lists mentioned in paragraphs (2) and (3).

(2) The first of those lists (“the postal signers list”) is a list of—

(a) those persons who are for the time being shown in the postal voters list under paragraph 5(2) of Schedule 4, together with the addresses as shown in that list as the addresses to which their postal ballot sheets are to be sent;

(b) those persons who are for the time being shown in the record kept under regulation 51(4) as signing the petition by post (excluding those so shown whose applications under regulation 53(4) to sign the petition by proxy have been granted), together with the addresses provided by them in their applications under regulation 51 or regulation 53(4)(a) (as the case may be) as the addresses to which their signing sheets are to be sent;

(c) those persons whose applications have been granted under regulation 53(1) to sign a particular petition by post, together with the addresses provided by them in their application under that regulation.

(3) The second of those lists (“the list of proxies”) is a list of—

(a) those persons who are for the time being shown in the list of proxies under paragraph 5(3) of Schedule 4,

(b) those persons who are for the time being shown in the record kept under regulation 51(4) as being eligible to sign the petition by proxy,

(c) those persons whose applications have been granted under regulation 53(2) or (5) to sign that petition by proxy,

together with (in each case) the names and the addresses of those appointed as their proxies.

(4) In the case of a person who has an anonymous entry in the register, the postal signers list or list of proxies (as the case may be) must contain only—

(a) the person’s electoral number, and

(b) the period for which the anonymous entry has effect.

(5) The registration officer must, immediately on completion of list referred to in paragraphs (2) and (3), supply to the petition officer so much of those lists as relate to the constituency to which the petition relates.