{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/recall-of-mps-act-2015-recall-petition-regulations-2016/regulation-73A",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/recall-of-mps-act-2015-recall-petition-regulations-2016/regulation-73A.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/73A",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "73A",
  "heading": "Notification postal signing entitlement is to end",
  "text": "(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”).\n(2) The registration officer must, before the end of the maximum period, send to the relevant person—\n(a) a notice informing the person of the date on which the person’s entitlement to sign by post is to end, and\n(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).\n(3) In this regulation—\n“maximum period” means the period described in regulation 51(1A)(a) or (1B)(a) or 58(6A)(a);\n“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).",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "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)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2016/295/regulation/73A",
    "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."
}