Regulation 110A List of rejected postal petition documents: Northern IrelandF1

(1)

In respect of any petition, the petition officer must keep a list relating to rejected postal petition documents as required by this regulation.

(2)

The petition officer must, subject to paragraph (5), record in relation to any elector whose postal petition documents were rejected in accordance with regulation 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.

(3)

The specified reasons that may be given under sub-paragraph (2)(c) for the rejection of the postal petition documents are—

(a)

the postal petition documents were handed in 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 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.

(4)

In compiling the list the petition officer must open separately each covering envelope (including an envelope described in regulation 102(2)) and each signing sheet envelope.

(5)

The obligation in paragraph (2) does not apply where an elector’s rejected postal petition documents do not include a postal petition statement.

Annotations

Textual amendments

F1: Reg. 110A 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(13)