{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/recall-of-mps-act-2015-recall-petition-regulations-2016/regulation-99C",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/recall-of-mps-act-2015-recall-petition-regulations-2016/regulation-99C.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/99C",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "99C",
  "heading": "Procedure for dealing with rejected postal petition documents handed in at a petition signing place",
  "text": "(1) Where any postal petition document has been rejected in accordance with regulation 99B the relevant officer must indicate this, together with the reason or reasons for the rejection and the relevant officer’s name, on the return of postal petition documents form and attach the form to the postal petition documents concerned.\n(2) The petition clerk must make up a packet (or packets) of the rejected postal petition documents and the accompanying return of postal petition documents forms, sealed with the petition clerk’s own seal with a description of its contents written on each packet.\n(3) Where a return of postal petition documents form relates to postal petition documents which have not all been rejected, that form must be dealt with as if it related just to rejected postal petition documents, and the postal petition documents which have been rejected must be noted on it.\n(4) The petition clerk must deliver, or cause to be delivered, those packets in the same manner and at the same time as the petition clerk delivers, or causes to be delivered, the packets referred to in regulation 37.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "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)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2016/295/regulation/99C",
    "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."
}