{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/recall-of-mps-act-2015-recall-petition-regulations-2016/regulation-18",
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  "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/18",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "18",
  "heading": "Issue of official petition notice",
  "text": "(1) For the purposes of section 8 of the Act (notice of petition to be sent to registered electors) the petition officer must send to electors and their proxies an official petition notice in accordance with this regulation.\n(2) Where an elector has appointed a proxy to sign the petition, the petition officer must send an official petition notice to both the elector and the elector’s proxy.\n(3) An official petition notice must not be sent to a person registered, or to be registered, in pursuance of an overseas elector’s declaration.\n(4) An elector’s official petition notice must be sent or delivered to the elector’s qualifying address.\n(5) A proxy’s official petition notice must be sent or delivered to the address which—\n(a) is shown as the proxy’s address in the list of proxies; or\n(b) in the case of a proxy for an elector with an anonymous entry in a register maintained by the Chief Electoral Officer for Northern Ireland, would be so shown but for regulation 56(4) (absent signing lists: Northern Ireland).\n(6) The official petition notice must—\n(a) in respect of electors who may sign the petition in person, be in the form set out in Form D in Schedule 2;\n(b) in respect of electors who may sign the petition by post, be in the form set out in Form E in Schedule 2;\n(c) in respect of a proxy who may sign the petition in person, be in the form set out in Form F in Schedule 2; and\n(d) in respect of a proxy who may sign the petition by post, be in the form set out in Form G in Schedule 2.\n(7) The official petition notice must set out—\n(a) the name of the MP who has become subject to the petition process;\n(b) the name of the constituency of that MP;\n(c) the recall petition condition that has been met in relation to that MP;\n(d) the elector’s name, qualifying address and number on the register;\n(e) the dates of the beginning and end of the signing period;\n(f) the situation of the elector’s petition signing place allotted to them under regulation 16 (allotment of petition signing place) and the days and hours during which the petition will be available for signing at that place;\n(fa) in respect of an official petition notice described in paragraph (6)(a) or (c) for a recall petition held in England, Wales or Scotland, details of the documents the elector or proxy needs to produce when applying for a signing sheet, namely—\n(i) in the case of an elector (other than an elector with an anonymous entry) or a proxy, any of the forms of identification for the time being referred to in rule 37(1H) of Schedule 1 to the 1983 Act (parliamentary elections rules);\n(ii) in the case of an elector with an anonymous entry, the elector’s official petition notice and an anonymous elector’s document showing the same number on the register as the number on the register shown on the official petition notice;\n(g) such other information as the petition officer considers appropriate.\n(8) Different information may be provided under paragraph (7)(d), (f) , (fa) and (g) to different electors or descriptions of electors.\n(9) In the case of an elector with an anonymous entry, instead of containing the matters mentioned in paragraph (7)(d) the official petition notice must only include the elector’s number in the register.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Reg. 18(7)(fa) inserted (16.1.2023) by The Voter Identification Regulations 2022 (S.I. 2022/1382), regs. 1(3), 72(a) (with reg. 1(6)(7)) (which affecting provision is extended to N.I. (31.10.2023) by The Financial Services and Markets Act 2023 (Commencement No. 4 and Transitional and Saving Provisions) (Amendment) Regulations 2023 (S.I. 2023/1382), regs. 1(2), 13)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Word in reg. 18(8) inserted (16.1.2023) by The Voter Identification Regulations 2022 (S.I. 2022/1382), regs. 1(3), 72(b) (with reg. 1(6)(7)) (which affecting provision is extended to N.I. (31.10.2023) by The Financial Services and Markets Act 2023 (Commencement No. 4 and Transitional and Saving Provisions) (Amendment) Regulations 2023 (S.I. 2023/1382), regs. 1(2), 13)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 18 in force at 4.3.2016, see reg. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2016/295/regulation/18",
    "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."
}