Regulation 123A Influencing persons signing a petitionF1
(1)
A person who—
(a)
is with or near a person at a petition signing place when that other person has received a signing sheet, and
(b)
intends to influence that other person to sign that petition or to refrain from signing that petition,
commits an offence.
(2)
For the purposes of this regulation, endorsement of a person’s signing sheet, in accordance with regulation 29, is not influencing that person to sign that petition or to refrain from signing that petition.
(3)
A person who commits an offence under this regulation is liable on summary conviction to imprisonment for a term not exceeding six months, to a fine or to both.