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This is a draft item of legislation. This draft has since been made as a UK Statutory Instrument: The Recall of MPs Act 2015 (Recall Petition) Regulations 2016 No. 295
118.—(1) A person is guilty of a corrupt practice if they commit, or aid, abet, counsel or procure the commission of, the offence of personation.
(2) A person is guilty of personation if they—
(a)sign a petition in person or by post as some other person, whether as an elector or as proxy, and whether that other person is living or dead or is a fictitious person; or
(b)sign a petition, in person or by post, as proxy—
(i)for a person whom they know or have reasonable grounds for supposing to be dead or to be a fictitious person, or
(ii)when they know or have reasonable grounds for supposing that their appointment as proxy is not in force.
(3) For the purposes of this regulation, a person who—
(a)has their signing sheet endorsed under regulation 29 (signing sheets endorsed by petition clerk),
(b)applies for a signing sheet for the purpose of signing by post, or
(c)marks a postal signing sheet with a signature or otherwise and returns it,
is also to be taken to have signed the petition.
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