{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/recall-of-mps-act-2015-recall-petition-regulations-2016/regulation-46",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/recall-of-mps-act-2015-recall-petition-regulations-2016/regulation-46.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/46",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "46",
  "heading": "Retention and disposal of documents: England and Wales and Northern Ireland",
  "text": "(1) The registration officer must retain for a year all documents relating to a petition forwarded to them in pursuance of these Regulations by a petition officer, and then, unless otherwise directed by order of the House of Commons or any court, must cause them to be destroyed.\n(2) The petition officer must retain for a year the documents referred to in regulation 44(2) (delivery of documents to the registration officer: Northern Ireland) and 110A (list of rejected postal petition documents: Northern Ireland) and then, unless otherwise directed by order of the House of Commons or any court, must cause them to be destroyed.",
  "extent": "E+W+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Reg. 46 renumbered as reg. 46(1) (6.7.2020) by The Representation of the People (Electronic Communications and Amendment) (Northern Ireland) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/581), regs. 1(2), 13(2)(b) (with reg. 13(6))"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Reg. 46(2) inserted (6.7.2020) by The Representation of the People (Electronic Communications and Amendment) (Northern Ireland) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/581), regs. 1(2), 13(2)(c) (with reg. 13(6))"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in reg. 46(2) 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(6)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in reg. 46 heading inserted (6.7.2020) by The Representation of the People (Electronic Communications and Amendment) (Northern Ireland) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/581), regs. 1(2), 13(2)(a) (with reg. 13(6))"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 46 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/46",
    "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."
}