# The Recall of MPs Act 2015 (Recall Petition) Regulations 2016, Regulation 110: Lists of rejected postal petition documents: England and Wales and Scotland

Extent: E+W+S

(1) In respect of any petition, the petition officer must keep four separate lists relating to rejected postal petition documents as required by this regulation (“lists of rejected postal petition documents”).
(2) In the first list, the officer must record the signing sheet number of any postal signing sheet for which no valid postal petition statement was received with it.
(3) In the second list, the officer must record the postal signing sheet number which is entered on a valid postal petition statement where that signing sheet is not received with the postal petition statement.
(4) In the third list, the officer must record, for every postal petition statement in the receptacle for rejected signing sheets (verification procedure) immediately prior to sealing—
(a) the elector’s name and address (and the name and address of the proxy if the elector has a proxy);
(b) the elector’s number on the register of electors (and that of the proxy if the elector has a proxy);
(c) the specified reason or reasons for the rejection of the postal petition statement; and
(d) any other information relating to the rejection that the petition officer considers appropriate, but not the signing sheet number.
(5) The specified reasons that may be given under paragraph (4)(c) for the rejection of a postal petition statement are as follows—
(a) the signature does not match the example held on the personal identifiers record;
(b) the date of birth does not match the one held on the personal identifiers record;
(c) the signature field is blank; or
(d) the date of birth field is blank.
(6) In the fourth list, the petition clerk must, subject to paragraph (9), record in relation to any elector whose postal petition documents were rejected in accordance with regulation 99B or 102B, or were left behind postal petition documents—
(a) the elector’s name and address (and the name and address of the proxy if the elector has a proxy);
(b) the elector’s number on the register of electors (and that of the proxy if the elector has a proxy),
(c) the specified reason or reasons for the rejection of the postal petition documents,
(d) an indication as to whether the postal petition documents included a postal signing sheet the number of which matched the postal signing sheet number marked on the postal petition statement, and
(e) any other information relating to the rejection that the petition officer considers appropriate, but not the postal signing sheet number.
(7) The specified reasons that may be given under sub-paragraph (6)(c) for the rejection of the postal petition documents are—
(a) the postal petition documents were handed in at a signing place or to the petition officer but the return of postal petition documents form was not fully completed with the required information;
(b) the postal petition documents were handed in at a signing place or to the petition officer but the number of postal petition documents handed in exceeded or was suspected to exceed the permitted number;
(c) the postal petition documents were handed in by a political campaigner who was not permitted to hand in those postal petition documents;
(d) the postal petition documents were left behind postal petition documents.
(8) In compiling the fourth list the petition officer must open separately each covering envelope (including an envelope described in regulation 102(2)) and each signing sheet envelope.
(9) The obligation in paragraph (6) does not apply where an elector’s rejected postal petition documents do not include a postal petition statement.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2016/295/regulation/110 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/recall-of-mps-act-2015-recall-petition-regulations-2016/regulation-110
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