# The Voter Identification Regulations 2022, Regulation 73: Amendment of regulation 19 (equipment at petition signing place)


In regulation 19 (equipment at petition signing place)—
(a) after paragraph (3) insert—
“(3A) For a petition signing place in England, Wales or Scotland, the petition officer must also provide each petition signing place with a signing sheet refusal list, in the form set out in Form G1 in Schedule 2 or a form to like effect, on which entries are to be made as mentioned in regulation 30A (refusal to deliver signing sheet: England and Wales and Scotland).”;
(b) after paragraph (5) insert—
“(5A) A large notice must be displayed inside each petition signing place in England, Wales and Scotland containing—
(a) details of the documents that a person needs to produce when applying for a signing sheet, namely—
(i) in the case of a person (other than a person with an anonymous entry) or a proxy, any of the forms of identification for the time referred to in rule 37(1H) of Schedule 1 to the 1983 Act (parliamentary elections rules);
(ii) in the case of a person with an anonymous entry, the person’s official petition notice and an anonymous elector’s document showing the same electoral number as the number shown on the official petition notice; and
(b) a statement that further proof of identity may be required to resolve any discrepancy between the name of the holder of a form of identification and the name of the elector or proxy that the person attending that place for the purpose of signing the petition claims to be.”.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2022/9780348240504/regulation/73 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/draft-voter-identification-regulations-2022/regulation-73
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