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Regulation 73A Notification postal signing entitlement is to endF1

England, Wales and Scotland

(1)

This regulation applies in respect of a person who remains entitled to sign petitions held in England, Wales or Scotland by virtue of a postal signing entitlement which was granted for the maximum period (“the relevant person”).

(2)

The registration officer must, before the end of the maximum period, send to the relevant person—

(a)

a notice informing the person of the date on which the person’s entitlement to sign by post is to end, and

(b)

information about how to make a fresh application to sign by post (as a person on the person’s own behalf or, as the case may be, as proxy).

(3)

In this regulation—

  • “maximum period” means the period described in regulation 51(1A)(a) or (1B)(a) or 58(6A)(a);

  • “postal signing entitlement” means an entitlement to sign by post at recall petitions resulting from the grant of an application under regulation 51(1) or (7) or 58(5).

Annotations

Textual amendments

F1

Reg. 73A inserted (E.W.S.) (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(15) (with Sch. 2 paras. 33, 35, 36, 39)