C HAPTER 2 25 T HE RECALL PETITION PROCESS Arrangements for the process 6 Designation of where and when petition may be signed (1) Having received a recall initiating notice, a petition officer must, as soon as reasonably practicable, designate— 30 (a) a place, or places, at which a recall petition in relation to the member to whom the notice relates is to be made available for signing, and (b) a day from which the petition is to be made available for signing. (2) Under subsection (1)(a)— (a) in relation to a petition for the recall of a constituency member, a maximum of 35 10 places in the constituency may be designated, (b) in relation to a petition for the recall of a regional member, a maximum of 10 places in each constituency included in the region may be designated. 5 Scottish Parliament (Recall and Removal of Members) Bill Part 1—Recall of members of the Scottish Parliament Chapter 2—The recall petition process 1 (3) The petition officer, in determining which place or places to designate under subsection (1)(a), must seek to ensure— (a) that all persons entitled to sign the recall petition have such reasonable facilities for signing it as are practicable in the circumstances, and 5 (b) that, so far as is reasonable and practicable, every place designated is accessible to disabled persons. (4) The day designated under subsection (1)(b) is to be— (a) the 10th working day after the day on which the petition officer received the recall initiating notice, or 10 (b) if it is not reasonably practicable for that to be the designated day, the first 1 subsequent working day that it is reasonably practicable to have be the designated day within the period of 3 weeks beginning with the petition officer receiving the recall initiating notice. 7 Notice of petition to be sent to registered electors 15 As soon as reasonably practicable after complying with section 6, the petition officer must (in accordance with regulations under section 21) send a notice of petition to persons entitled to sign the recall petition. 8 Duty to ensure petition’s availability for signing (1) The petition officer must ensure that the recall petition is (in accordance with regulations 20 under section 21) made available for signing throughout the signing period— (a) at the place, or places, designated under section 6(1)(a), and (b) by post. (2) A recall petition is made available for signing at a place, or by post, by a separate petition signing sheet being available for signing by each person entitled to sign the 25 petition at the place, or by post, in accordance with regulations under section 21. 9 Early termination of process (1) Where a member is subject to a recall petition process when an event mentioned in subsection (2) occurs, the Presiding Officer is— (a) to issue a notice (which is referred to in this Part as a “recall termination notice”), 30 as soon as reasonably practicable, to the petition officer, and (b) unless the Parliament is dissolved when that notice is issued, lay a copy of the notice before the Parliament. (2) The events referred to in subsection (1) are— (a) the Parliament is dissolved, 35 (b) the seat of the member to whom the petition relates otherwise becomes vacant, (c) in a case where the petition process began because the criminal-offence ground applied in relation to the member, the Presiding Officer becomes aware that the 6 Scottish Parliament (Recall and Removal of Members) Bill Part 1—Recall of members of the Scottish Parliament Chapter 2—The recall petition process conviction, sentence or order which caused that ground to apply has been materially overturned on appeal. (3) When a petition officer receives a recall termination notice— (a) the officer’s duties to run the recall petition process under sections 6 to 8 cease 5 to apply, and (b) no further action is to be taken under or by virtue of this Part in relation to the process except...