Regulation 102C Procedure for dealing with rejected postal petition documents handed in to the petition officerF1

Where any postal petition document has been rejected in accordance with regulation 102B the relevant officer must indicate this, together with the reason or reasons for the rejection and the relevant officer’s name, on the return of postal petition documents form and attach the form to the postal petition documents concerned.

The relevant officer must make up a packet (or packets) of the rejected postal petition documents and the accompanying return of postal petition documents forms which must be sealed up with a description of its contents written on each packet.

Where a return of postal petition documents form relates to postal petition documents which have not all been rejected, that form must be dealt with as if it related just to rejected postal petition documents, and the postal petition documents which have been rejected must be noted on it.

The relevant officer must deliver those packets to the petition officer before the end of the signing period.