Regulation 99A Requirements of return of postal petition documents formF1

(1)

The requirements of this regulation are—

(a)

the person handing in a postal petition document (“P”) completes a form containing the following information (a “return of postal petition documents form”)—

(i)

P’s name and address,

(ii)

whether P is handing in P’s own postal petition documents,

(iii)

the number of other electors for whom P is handing in postal petition documents,

(iv)

the total number of envelopes containing postal signing sheets P is handing in, including P’s own,

(v)

the reason P is handing in postal petition documents for other electors,

(vi)

a declaration by P that P has not handed in postal petition documents at any signing place or to the petition officer for a total of more than the number of electors other than P set out in regulation 99B(1)(c) or 102B(1)(c), including those being handed in at that time and either—

(aa)

that to the best of P’s knowledge, P is not a political campaigner for whom it is an offence to handle the postal petition documents concerned in accordance with regulation 122A,

(bb)

that P is a political campaigner and is only handing in postal petition documents for P and for P’s spouse, civil partner, parent, grandparent, brother, sister, child or grandchild, or someone for whom P provides regular care or for whom regular care is provided by an organisation which employs or engages P,

(b)

the relevant officer has endorsed the return of postal petition documents form returned by P to confirm the relevant officer’s name and that—

(i)

the relevant officer is satisfied that the form has been completed properly and provides the information required by paragraph (a),

(ii)

the relevant officer does not suspect that the number of electors other than P for whom P is handing in postal petition documents exceeds the number of electors specified in regulation 99B(1)(b) or 102B(1)(b),

(iii)

the relevant officer does not suspect that P is a political campaigner who is committing an offence under regulation 122A, and

(iv)

the postal petition documents to which the form relates are not rejected.

(2)

For the purposes of paragraph (1)(a)(vi)(bb), two people living together as if they were a married couple or civil partners are treated as if they were spouses or civil partners of each other.

Annotations

Textual amendments

F1: Regs. 99A-99D 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(8)