# The Recall of MPs Act 2015 (Recall Petition) Regulations 2016, Paragraph 28


In section 173 (incapacities on conviction of corrupt or illegal practice)—
(a) in subsection (1), after “subsection (2)” insert “and (2A)”;
(b) in subsection (2), for the words from “section 60” to the end, substitute “regulation 118 (personation), regulation 120 (offences relating to applications for postal or proxy signing) or regulation 122A (handling of postal petition documents by political campaigners) of the Recall of MPs Act 2015 (Recall Petition) Regulations 2016, or an illegal practice under regulation 119 of those Regulations (other signing offences).”;
(c) after subsection (2), insert—
“(2A) A court before which a person is convicted of an offence referred to in subsection (2B) may, if they think it just in the special circumstances of the case, mitigate or entirely remit any incapacity imposed by virtue of this section.
(2B) Those offences are any offence under the following provisions of the Recall of MPs Act 2015 (Recall Petition) Regulations 2016—
(a) regulation 119 (other signing offences),
(b) regulation 125 (broadcasting from outside the United Kingdom),
(c) regulation 126 (imitation official petition notice cards).”.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2016/295/schedule/4/paragraph/28 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/recall-of-mps-act-2015-recall-petition-regulations-2016/schedule-4/paragraph-28
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