{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-recall-of-mps-act-2015-recall-petition-regulations-2016/regulation-120",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-recall-of-mps-act-2015-recall-petition-regulations-2016/regulation-120.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/120",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "120",
  "heading": "Offences relating to applications for postal and proxy signing",
  "text": "(1) A person commits an offence if they—\n(a) engage in an act specified in paragraph (2) in relation to a petition; and\n(b) intend by doing so to deprive another person of an opportunity to sign the petition, to secure a signature on the petition, or to gain money or property of any description.\n(2) These are the acts—\n(a) applying as some other person to sign a petition by post or proxy (whether that other person is living or dead or is a fictitious person);\n(b) otherwise making a false statement in, or in connection with, an application to sign a petition by post or proxy;\n(c) inducing the petition officer to send a postal signing sheet or any communication relating to signing a petition by post or proxy to an address which has not been agreed to by the person entitled to sign the petition;\n(d) causing a communication relating to signing a petition by post or proxy or containing a postal signing sheet not to be delivered to the intended recipient.\n(3) In paragraph (2), a reference to signing the petition by post includes signing the petition by post as a proxy and postal signing sheet is to be construed accordingly.\n(4) A person who commits an offence under paragraph (1) or who aids, abets, counsels or procures the commission of such an offence is guilty of a corrupt practice.",
  "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/120",
    "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."
}