Regulation 99B Rejection of postal petition documents handed in at a petition signing placeF1
A relevant officer must reject—
all postal petition documents handed in by P where P fails to fully complete the return of postal petition documents form with the required information;
all postal petition documents handed in by P other than P’s own postal petition documents where the relevant officer has reasonable cause to suspect that the documents are handed in on behalf of more than five other electors;
a postal petition document handed in by P or all postal petition documents handed in together by P (other than P’s own postal petition documents) where the relevant officer has reasonable cause to suspect that, taking that document or those documents together with any postal petition documents handed in by P on any previous occasion in respect of the same petition (whether to a signing place or to the petition officer and disregarding any that were rejected), P has handed in postal petition documents on behalf of more than five other electors.
Where P hands in one or more proxy postal signing papers completed by P as proxy for another elector, for “five” in paragraphs (1)(b) and (c), substitute the number that is five minus the number of proxy postal signing papers P hands in.
A relevant officer may reject a postal petition document handed in by P where the relevant officer knows or has reasonable cause to suspect that, in handing in the document, P is committing an offence under regulation 122A.
Annotations
Textual amendments
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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)