{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-recall-of-mps-act-2015-recall-petition-regulations-2016/schedule-4/paragraph-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-recall-of-mps-act-2015-recall-petition-regulations-2016/schedule-4/paragraph-4.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": "schedule/4/paragraph/4",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Questioning of a recall petition",
  "text": "In section 121 (presentation and service of a recall petition complaint)—\n(a) for subsections (1), (1A) and (2) substitute—\n“(1) A recall petition complaint may be presented by one or more of the following persons—\n(a) a person who signed the petition or was entitled to do so; or\n(b) the MP in relation to whom the petition was held.\n(2) The respondent to a complaint shall be—\n(a) where the complaint relates to the conduct of the petition officer, that officer;\n(b) where the complaint is made by a person other than the MP in relation to whom the petition was held, that MP;\n(c) otherwise, the petition officer.”;\n(b) in subsection (3), for “to which it relates” substitute “of the MP to whom the recall petition related”;\n(c) in subsection (4), for “returning officer of the constituency to which the petition related” substitute “petition officer”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2016/9780111141991/schedule/4/paragraph/4",
    "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."
}