Regulation 50 Entitlement to sign by post or proxyI1
United Kingdom
A person is entitled to sign a petition by post if that person—
is entitled to sign the petition by virtue of section 10 of the Act (entitlement to sign a recall petition); and
before the cut-off dayf1, has been granted an application under paragraph 3(1) of Schedule 4 (absent vote at elections for definite or indefinite period) to vote by post at parliamentary elections and is included in the postal voters list under paragraph 5(2) of that Schedule (absent voters list).
Subject to paragraph (5), a person is entitled to sign a petition by proxy if that person—
is entitled to sign the petition by virtue of section 10 of the Act; and
before the cut-off day, has been granted an application under paragraph 3(2) of Schedule 4 to vote by proxy at parliamentary elections and is included in the list of proxies under paragraph 5(3) of that Schedule.
A person is also entitled to sign a petition by post or, as the case may be, by proxy if that person—
is entitled to sign the petition by virtue of section 10 of the Act; and
before the cut-off day, has been granted an application under section 6(1) of the 1985 Act (absent vote at elections for an indefinite period) to vote by post or to vote by proxy for an indefinite period and is shown in the record referred to in subsection (3) of that section of those whose applications have been granted under subsection (1) of that section.
Where a person has been granted an application under paragraph 3(1) of Schedule 4 to vote by post F1and the period for which the resulting entitlement to vote by post expires during the signing period of a particular petition, that F2... period is deemed to continue until the end of the signing period for the purposes of enabling that person to sign the petition by post, unless that person applies to have their name removed from the postal voters list made under paragraph 5(2) of that Schedule before 5pm on the eleventh day before the last day of the signing period of that petition.
Where a person has been granted an application under paragraph 3(2) of Schedule 4 to vote by proxy for a definite period and that period expires during the signing period for a particular petition, that entitlement to vote by proxy comes to an end on the expiry of that definite period.
Annotations
Textual amendments
- F1
Words in reg. 50(4) substituted (31.10.2023) by The Representation of the People (Postal and Proxy Voting etc.) (Amendment) Regulations 2023 (S.I. 2023/1147), regs. 1(2), 19(5)(a) (with Sch. 2 paras. 33, 35, 36, 39)
- F2
Word in reg. 50(4) omitted (31.10.2023) by virtue of The Representation of the People (Postal and Proxy Voting etc.) (Amendment) Regulations 2023 (S.I. 2023/1147), regs. 1(2), 19(5)(b) (with Sch. 2 paras. 33, 35, 36, 39)
Commencement
- I1
Reg. 50 in force at 4.3.2016, see reg. 1
Footnotes
- f1
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The cut-off day is defined in section 10(4)(a) of the Act as the third working day before the beginning of the signing period.