{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-recall-of-mps-act-2015-recall-petition-regulations-2016/regulation-118",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-recall-of-mps-act-2015-recall-petition-regulations-2016/regulation-118.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/118",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "118",
  "heading": "Personation",
  "text": "(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.\n(2) A person is guilty of personation if they—\n(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\n(b) sign a petition, in person or by post, as proxy—\n(i) for a person whom they know or have reasonable grounds for supposing to be dead or to be a fictitious person, or\n(ii) when they know or have reasonable grounds for supposing that their appointment as proxy is not in force.\n(3) For the purposes of this regulation, a person who—\n(a) has their signing sheet endorsed under regulation 29 (signing sheets endorsed by petition clerk),\n(b) applies for a signing sheet for the purpose of signing by post, or\n(c) marks a postal signing sheet with a signature or otherwise and returns it,\nis also to be taken to have signed the petition.",
  "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/118",
    "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."
}