{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-recall-of-mps-act-2015-recall-petition-regulations-2015/schedule-4/paragraph-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-recall-of-mps-act-2015-recall-petition-regulations-2015/schedule-4/paragraph-5.json",
  "legislation": "ukdsi/2015/9780111140604",
  "legislation_title": "The Recall of MPs Act 2015 (Recall Petition) Regulations 2015",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-recall-of-mps-act-2015-recall-petition-regulations-2015",
  "path": "schedule/4/paragraph/5",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Questioning of a recall petition",
  "text": "In section 122 (time for presentation or amendment of a recall petition complaint)—\n(a) for subsection (1), substitute—\n“(1) Subject to the provisions of this section, a recall petition complaint must be presented within 21 days after the day on which public notice of the outcome of the petition is given in accordance with section 14(2)(c) of the Recall of MPs Act 2015 (determination of whether recall petition successful).”;\n(b) in subsection (2)—\n(i) for “election or return” substitute “outcome of the petition”,\n(ii) for “since the time of that return” substitute “after the day referred to in subsection (1)”;\n(c) in subsections (3) and (5), for “election or return” substitute “outcome of the petition”;\n(d) in subsection (3), in paragraph (b)—\n(i) for “to whose election the petition relates or an agent of his” substitute “to whom the recall petition related”,\n(ii) omit “or his election agent”;\n(e) for subsection (4) substitute—\n“(4) The day referred to in subsection (3) is the tenth day after the end of the time allowed for delivering to the petition officer the recall petition return required by Schedule 5 to the Recall of MPs Act 2015 (recall petition returns) or, if later—\n(a) that on which the petition officer receives the return and all documents required by that Schedule to accompany it;\n(b) where the return and those documents are received on different days, the last of those days;”;\n(f) in subsection (6), omit “; and” and paragraph (b).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2015/9780111140604/schedule/4/paragraph/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T15:09:05.710533+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}