Regulation 118 Personation

(1)

A person is guilty of a corrupt practice if they commit, or aid, abet, counsel or procure the commission of, the offence of personation.

(2)

A person is guilty of personation if they—

(a)

sign a petition in person or by post as some other person, whether as an elector or as proxy, and whether that other person is living or dead or is a fictitious person; or

(b)

sign a petition, in person or by post, as proxy—

(i)

for a person whom they know or have reasonable grounds for supposing to be dead or to be a fictitious person, or

(ii)

when they know or have reasonable grounds for supposing that their appointment as proxy is not in force.

(3)

For the purposes this regulation, a person who—

(a)

has their signing sheet endorsed under regulation 29 (signing sheets endorsed by petition clerk),

(b)

applies for a signing sheet for the purpose of signing by post,

(c)

marks a postal signing sheet with a signature or otherwise and returns it,

is also to be taken to have signed the petition.