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

Undue influenceU.K.

136.—(1) A person is guilty of a corrupt practice if that person is guilty of undue influence.

(2) A person is guilty of undue influence—

(a)if that person, directly or indirectly, by themselves or by any other person on their behalf, makes use of or threatens to make use of any force, violence or restraint, or inflicts or threatens to inflict, by themselves or by any other person, any temporal or spiritual injury, damage, harm or loss upon or against any person in order to induce or compel that person to sign a petition or to refrain from doing so, or on account of that person having signed the petition or refrained from doing so; or

(b)if, by abduction, duress or any fraudulent device or contrivance, that person impedes or prevents, or intends to impede or prevent, the free exercise of the entitlement to sign a petition of an elector or their proxy, or so compels, induces or prevails upon, or intends so to compel, induce or prevail upon, an elector or proxy either to sign a petition or to refrain from doing so.

Commencement Information

I1Reg. 136 in force at 4.3.2016, see reg. 1