Regulation 50 Entitlement to sign by post or proxy

(1)

A person is entitled to sign a petition by post if that person—

(a)

is entitled to sign the petition by virtue of section 10 of the Act (entitlement to sign a recall petition); and

(b)

before the cut-off day^f1, has been granted an application under paragraph 3(1) of Schedule 4 (absent vote at elections for definite or indefinite period) to vote by post at parliamentary elections and is included in the postal voters list under paragraph 5(2) of that Schedule (absent voters list).

(2)

Subject to paragraph (5), a person is entitled to sign a petition by proxy if that person—

(a)

is entitled to sign the petition by virtue of section 10 of the Act; and

(b)

before the cut-off day, has been granted an application under paragraph 3(2) of Schedule 4 to vote by proxy at parliamentary elections and is included in the list of proxies under paragraph 5(3) of that Schedule.

(3)

A person is also entitled to sign a petition by post or, as the case may be, by proxy if that person—

(a)

is entitled to sign the petition by virtue of section 10 of the Act; and

(b)

before the cut-off day, has been granted an application under section 6(1) of the 1985 Act (absent vote at elections for an indefinite period) to vote by post or to vote by proxy for an indefinite period and is shown in the record referred to in subsection (3) of that section of those whose applications have been granted under subsection (1) of that section.

(4)

Where a person has been granted an application under paragraph 3(1) of Schedule 4 to vote by post for a definite period and that period expires during the signing period of a particular petition, that definite period is deemed to continue until the end of the signing period for the purposes of enabling that person to sign the petition by post, unless that person applies to have their name removed from the postal voters list made under paragraph 5(2) of that Schedule before 5pm on the eleventh day before the last day of the signing period of that petition.

(5)

Where a person has been granted an application under paragraph 3(2) of Schedule 4 to vote by proxy for a definite period and that period expires during the signing period for a particular petition, that entitlement to vote by proxy comes to an end on the expiry of that definite period.

Annotations

Footnotes

f1: The cut-off day is defined in section 10(4)(a) of the Act as the third working day before the beginning of the signing period.