SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 4 LEGAL PROCEEDINGS: APPLICATION TO RECALL PETITIONS OF EXISTING PROVISIONS

PART 1 REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE ACT 1983, PART 3

Consequences of finding by petition court of corrupt or illegal practice

21.  In section 160 (persons reported personally guilty of corrupt or illegal practices)—

(a) in subsection (1), omit “or section 145”, “, or” and paragraph (b);

(b) in subsection (4A), for the words after “reported” to the end substitute—

“personally guilty of—

(a) a corrupt practice under regulation 118 (personation) or 120 (offences relating to applications for postal and proxy signing) of the Recall of MPs Act 2015 (Recall Petition) Regulations 2016, or

(b) an illegal practice under regulation 119 of those Regulations (other signing offences).”;

(c) omit subsection (7), after “this Act” insert “and the Recall of MPs Act 2015 (Recall Petition) Regulations 2016”.