Amendment of regulation 19 (equipment at petition signing place)E+W+S
73. In regulation 19 (equipment at petition signing place)—
(a)after paragraph (3) insert—
“(3A) For a petition signing place in England, Wales or Scotland, the petition officer must also provide each petition signing place with a signing sheet refusal list, in the form set out in Form G1 in Schedule 2 or a form to like effect, on which entries are to be made as mentioned in regulation 30A (refusal to deliver signing sheet: England and Wales and Scotland).”;
(b)after paragraph (5) insert—
“(5A) A large notice must be displayed inside each petition signing place in England, Wales and Scotland containing—
(a)details of the documents that a person needs to produce when applying for a signing sheet, namely—
(i)in the case of a person (other than a person with an anonymous entry) or a proxy, any of the forms of identification for the time referred to in rule 37(1H) of Schedule 1 to the 1983 Act (parliamentary elections rules);
(ii)in the case of a person with an anonymous entry, the person’s official petition notice and an anonymous elector’s document showing the same electoral number as the number shown on the official petition notice; and
(b)a statement that further proof of identity may be required to resolve any discrepancy between the name of the holder of a form of identification and the name of the elector or proxy that the person attending that place for the purpose of signing the petition claims to be.”.
Commencement Information
I1Reg. 73 in force at 16.1.2023, see reg. 1(3)