{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/recall-of-mps-act-2015-recall-petition-regulations-2016/regulation-115A",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/recall-of-mps-act-2015-recall-petition-regulations-2016/regulation-115A.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/115A",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "115A",
  "heading": "Notification of a rejected postal petition document: Northern Ireland",
  "text": "(1) Where an absent signer for a petition in Northern Ireland appears on the list compiled under regulation 110A (lists of rejected postal petition documents) with an indication in accordance with regulation 110A(2)(d) that a postal signing sheet was included in the rejected postal petition documents—\n(a) the petition officer must notify the absent signer (and the elector if the absent signer is a proxy) that the signing sheet concerned was rejected because—\n(i) the postal signing sheet was handed in and the relevant officer—\n(aa) was not satisfied that the return of postal petition documents form had been completed properly and provided the required information;\n(bb) suspected that the person handing it in had handed in postal signing sheets on behalf of more than the permitted number of electors;\n(cc) suspected that the person handing it in was a political campaigner who was committing an offence under regulation 122A;\n(ii) the postal signing sheet was a left behind postal petition document;\n(b) the petition officer must send the notification as soon as possible, and within the period of three months beginning with the last day of the signing period; and\n(c) the notification must include information as to which of the specified reasons referred to in regulation 110A(3) applied to the postal signing sheet.\n(2) The petition officer is not obliged to send a notification—\n(a) to any person who is no longer shown as signing the petition by post in the record kept under regulation 52(5) or regulation 58(7) at the time the petition officer proposes to send the notification, or\n(b) where the petition officer suspects that an offence may have been committed in relation to the postal signing sheet or the absent signer’s entitlement to sign the petition under section 10 of the Act (persons entitled to sign a recall petition) except where that offence is committed by a political campaigner under regulation 112A.\n(3) A notification issued under paragraph (1) may also include any other information that the petition officer considers appropriate, but a notification must not include a date of birth or national insurance number.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Reg. 115A 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(18)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2016/295/regulation/115A",
    "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."
}