Paragraph 25 Recall of MPs Act 2015 (c. 25)I1

Section 5 (Speaker’s notice that a recall condition has been met) is amended as follows.

In subsection (2)(a), after “with the” insert “last possible”.

After subsection (2), insert—

“(2A)

For the purposes of subsection (2)(a), the last possible polling day is the day on which polling would take place, according to the election timetable in rule 1 of Schedule 1 to the Representation of the People Act 1983, if the Parliament then in existence were dissolved by virtue of section 4 of the Dissolution and Calling of Parliament Act 2022 (automatic dissolution of Parliament after five years).”

Omit subsection (3).