{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/recall-of-mps-act-2015-recall-petition-regulations-2016/regulation-102",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/recall-of-mps-act-2015-recall-petition-regulations-2016/regulation-102.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2016/295",
  "legislation_title": "The Recall of MPs Act 2015 (Recall Petition) Regulations 2016",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/recall-of-mps-act-2015-recall-petition-regulations-2016",
  "path": "regulation/102",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "102",
  "heading": "Receipt of covering envelopes",
  "text": "(1) The petition officer must, immediately on receipt by post of a covering envelope (or an envelope which is stated to include a postal signing sheet) before the end of the signing period, place it unopened in a postal signers’ ballot box.\n(2) Where an envelope, other than a covering envelope issued by the petition officer—\n(a) has been opened, and\n(b) contains a signing sheet envelope, postal petition statement or declaration of identity (as the case may be), or signing sheet,\nthe first-mentioned envelope, together with its contents, must be placed in a postal signers’ ballot box.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in reg. 102 substituted (with effect in accordance with reg. 1(2) of the amending S.I.) by The Representation of the People (Postal Vote Handling and Secrecy) (Amendment) Regulations 2023 (S.I. 2023/1225), reg. 10(9)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 102 in force at 4.3.2016, see reg. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2016/295/regulation/102",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:26:13.164279+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."
}