{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-recall-of-mps-act-2015-recall-petition-regulations-2016/regulation-102",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-recall-of-mps-act-2015-recall-petition-regulations-2016/regulation-102.json",
  "legislation": "ukdsi/2016/9780111141991",
  "legislation_title": "The Recall of MPs Act 2015 (Recall Petition) Regulations 2016",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-recall-of-mps-act-2015-recall-petition-regulations-2016",
  "path": "regulation/102",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "102",
  "heading": "Receipt of covering envelopes",
  "text": "(1) The petition officer must, immediately on receipt (whether by hand or by post) of a covering envelope (or an envelope which is stated to include a postal signing sheet) before the end of the signing period, place it unopened in a postal signers’ ballot box.\n(2) Where an envelope, other than a covering envelope issued by the petition officer—\n(a) has been opened, and\n(b) contains a signing sheet envelope, postal petition statement or declaration of identity (as the case may be), or signing sheet,\nthe first-mentioned envelope, together with its contents, must be placed in a postal signers’ ballot box.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2016/9780111141991/regulation/102",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T15:08:55.469105+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."
}