# The Recall of MPs Act 2015 (Recall Petition) Regulations 2015, 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.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2015/9780111140604/regulation/118 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/draft-recall-of-mps-act-2015-recall-petition-regulations-2015/regulation-118
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