Regulation 102D Postal petition documents left behind with the petition officerF1

(1)

This regulation applies to a postal petition document to which regulation 102A(1) applies which is a left behind postal petition document.

(2)

The relevant officer must—

(a)

reject that left behind postal petition document,

(b)

write on a return of postal petition documents form to confirm that the postal petition document is a left behind postal petition document,

(c)

write the relevant officer’s name on that form, and

(d)

attach that form to the left behind postal petition document.

(3)

Left behind postal petition documents and the attached return of postal petition documents forms must be included in the packet of rejected postal petition documents and forms made up in accordance with regulation 102C(2).

Annotations

Textual amendments

F1: Regs. 102A-102E inserted (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(10)