{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/recall-of-mps-act-2015-recall-petition-regulations-2016/regulation-99D",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/recall-of-mps-act-2015-recall-petition-regulations-2016/regulation-99D.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/99D",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "99D",
  "heading": "Postal petition documents left behind at a petition signing place",
  "text": "(1) Where a person leaves a left behind postal petition document at a signing place, the relevant officer must reject that left behind postal petition document.\n(2) The relevant officer must—\n(a) write on a return of postal petition documents form to confirm that the postal petition document is a left behind postal petition document,\n(b) write the relevant officer’s name on that form, and\n(c) attach that form to the left behind postal petition document.\n(3) Left behind postal petition documents and the attached return of postal petition documents forms must be included in the packet of rejected postal petition documents and forms made up in accordance with regulation 99C(2).",
  "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/99D",
    "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."
}