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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-recall-of-mps-act-2015-recall-petition-regulations-2016/schedule-4/paragraph-22",
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  "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": "schedule/4/paragraph/22",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "22",
  "heading": "Further provision as to avoidance of recall petitions and striking off signatures",
  "text": "In section 164 (avoidance of election for general corruption etc)—\n(a) for subsection (1) substitute—\n“(1) Where on a recall petition complaint it is shown that corrupt or illegal practices or illegal payments or hirings committed in reference to the petition for the purpose of promoting or procuring a particular outcome in that petition have so extensively prevailed that they may reasonably be supposed to have affected the result, that petition shall be void.”;\n(b) omit subsection (3).",
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  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2016/9780111141991/schedule/4/paragraph/22",
    "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."
}