{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-representation-of-the-people-overseas-electors-etc-amendment-regulations-2023/schedule-2/paragraph-4",
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  "legislation": "ukdsi/2023/9780348252675",
  "legislation_title": "The Representation of the People (Overseas Electors etc.) (Amendment) Regulations 2023",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-representation-of-the-people-overseas-electors-etc-amendment-regulations-2023",
  "path": "schedule/2/paragraph/4",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Limitation of certain postal signing entitlements held by overseas electors",
  "text": "(1) This paragraph applies where, immediately before 31st January 2024, a person—\n(a) is registered as an elector in pursuance of an overseas elector’s declaration, and\n(b) has a relevant postal signing entitlement lasting for—\n(i) an indefinite period, or\n(ii) a period that would expire after the relevant end date.\n(2) A “relevant postal signing entitlement” means an entitlement to sign by post at recall petitions in England, Wales or Scotland resulting from the grant of an application under regulation 51(1) or (7) or 58(5) of the 2016 Regulations.\n(3) The person’s relevant signing entitlement ends on the relevant end date (unless it ends sooner).\n(4) As soon as practicable after 31st January 2024, the registration officer must alter the record kept under regulation 51(4) or 58(7) of the 2016 Regulations (as the case may be) to reflect any change resulting from sub-paragraph (3) in the period for which the person’s relevant postal signing entitlement lasts.\n(5) The registration officer must, before the relevant end date, send the person—\n(a) a notice informing the person of the date on which the person’s relevant postal signing entitlement is to end, and\n(b) information about how to make a fresh application to sign recall petitions by post (as elector or, as the case may be, as proxy).\n(6) In this paragraph—\n“overseas elector’s declaration” has the meaning given in regulation 3(1) of the 2016 Regulations;\n“relevant end date” means the date until which, by virtue of section 1D(1)(a) or (3)(a) of the 1985 Act, the person is entitled to remain registered in pursuance of an overseas elector’s declaration.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2023/9780348252675/schedule/2/paragraph/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T14:42:33.899678+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."
}