{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/voter-identification-regulations-2022/regulation-73",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/voter-identification-regulations-2022/regulation-73.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2022/1382",
  "legislation_title": "The Voter Identification Regulations 2022",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/voter-identification-regulations-2022",
  "path": "regulation/73",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "73",
  "heading": "Amendment of regulation 19 (equipment at petition signing place)",
  "text": "In regulation 19 (equipment at petition signing place)—\n(a) after paragraph (3) insert—\n“(3A) For a petition signing place in England, Wales or Scotland, the petition officer must also provide each petition signing place with a signing sheet refusal list, in the form set out in Form G1 in Schedule 2 or a form to like effect, on which entries are to be made as mentioned in regulation 30A (refusal to deliver signing sheet: England and Wales and Scotland).”;\n(b) after paragraph (5) insert—\n“(5A) A large notice must be displayed inside each petition signing place in England, Wales and Scotland containing—\n(a) details of the documents that a person needs to produce when applying for a signing sheet, namely—\n(i) in the case of a person (other than a person with an anonymous entry) or a proxy, any of the forms of identification for the time referred to in rule 37(1H) of Schedule 1 to the 1983 Act (parliamentary elections rules);\n(ii) in the case of a person with an anonymous entry, the person’s official petition notice and an anonymous elector’s document showing the same electoral number as the number shown on the official petition notice; and\n(b) a statement that further proof of identity may be required to resolve any discrepancy between the name of the holder of a form of identification and the name of the elector or proxy that the person attending that place for the purpose of signing the petition claims to be.”.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 73 in force at 16.1.2023, see reg. 1(3)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2022/1382/regulation/73",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T21:51:30.041583+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."
}