{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/recall-of-mps-act-2015-recall-petition-regulations-2016/schedule-4/paragraph-22",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/recall-of-mps-act-2015-recall-petition-regulations-2016/schedule-4/paragraph-22.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": "schedule/4/paragraph/22",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "22",
  "heading": "Further provision as to avoidance of recall petitions and striking off signatures",
  "text": "In section 164 (avoidance of election for general corruption etc)—\n(a) for subsection (1) substitute—\n“(1) Where on a recall petition complaint it is shown that corrupt or illegal practices or illegal payments or hirings committed in reference to the petition for the purpose of promoting or procuring a particular outcome in that petition have so extensively prevailed that they may reasonably be supposed to have affected the result, that petition shall be void.”;\n(b) omit subsection (3).",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 4 para. 22 in force at 4.3.2016, see reg. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2016/295/schedule/4/paragraph/22",
    "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."
}