{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-recall-of-mps-act-2015-recall-petition-regulations-2016/schedule-4/paragraph-48",
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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/48",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "48",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "In the Schedule (form of recall petition complaint), for the form of petition, up to the end of paragraph (1) substitute—\n“IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUSTICE\nQUEEN’S BENCH DIVISION\nIn the matter of the Recall of MPs Act 2015\nAnd in the matter of the recall petition held in respect of [state name of MP in relation to whom the petition was held] and [state name of constituency] … beginning on the … day of … 20 … and ending on the …day of … 20 …\nThe complaint of A. B. of … (and C. D. of …) shows:\n1\nThat the Complainant A. B. is a person who signed (or was entitled to sign) the above petition (or was the MP in relation to whom the petition was held) and the Complainant C. D. (state similarly the capacity in which C. D. presents the complaint).\n2\nThat the petition was available for signing from the … day of … 20… to the … day of … 20 … and on the … day of … 20… the petition officer notified the Speaker of the House of Commons that the petition was successful (or unsuccessful).\n3\nThat (state the facts on which the Complainant relies).\n4\nThat (in the case of a complaint mentioned in section 122(2) or (3) of the Representation of the People 1983, as it has effect for the purposes of the Recall of MPs Act 2015 by virtue of the Recall of MPs Act 2015 (Recall Petition) Regulations 2016, state the event on which time for the presentation of the complaint depends and its date).\nThe complainant claims—\nThat it may be determined that the outcome of the petition was void (or as the case may be).”",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2016/9780111141991/schedule/4/paragraph/48",
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  "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."
}