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The Recall of MPs Act 2015 (Recall Petition) Regulations 2016

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Signing sheets endorsed by petition clerkU.K.

29.—(1) If a petition clerk is satisfied that a person wishes to sign the petition but is unable to sign the signing sheet on the ground of—

(a)blindness or other disability, or

(b)inability to read,

the petition clerk may endorse that person’s signing sheet to indicate that the person was unable to sign the signing sheet as a result of their disability but wishes to sign the petition and for their signing sheet to be included in the final count.

(2) The endorsement of the signing sheet in accordance with paragraph (1) is to be made by the petition clerk either in writing or by an official stamp on the front of the signing sheet in accordance with directions provided by the petition officer.

(3) Paragraphs (3) to (7) of regulation 28 (signing procedure: Northern Ireland) apply in the case of a person who applies under paragraph (1), as they apply in the case of a person who applies under regulation 28(1), but reading references to delivering a signing sheet to a person as references to endorsing a signing sheet.

(4) The name and number in the register of every person who signs the petition in accordance with this regulation must be entered on a list (“list of persons with disabilities assisted by the petition clerk”).

(5) In the case of a person signing as proxy for an elector, the number to be entered on the list referred to in paragraph (4) together with the elector’s name must be the elector’s number.

(6) In the case of a person in respect of whom a notice has been issued under section 13BC(6) of the 1983 Act (alteration of registers: recall petition), paragraph (4) above applies as if for “in the register of every person” there were substituted “relating to every person in respect of whom a notice has been issued under section13BC(6) of the 1983 Act”.

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I1Reg. 29 in force at 4.3.2016, see reg. 1

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